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INTRODUCTION. 



Previous to the year 1891 our famil}' had held a pic- 
nic on the Fourth of July for twenty years or more, but 
the Fourth of Juh% 1890, it was sus^-gested that we form 
what was named "The John Lowe Family Circle." The 
record of the action taken at that time is as follows: 



FiTCHBURG, July 5, 1890. 

For the better promotion and preservation of our 
family interests, together with a view to holding an 
annpal gathering, we, the sons and daughters of John 
Lowe, believing that these ends will be better accom- 
plished by an organization, hereby subscribe to the fol- 
lowing, viz.: 

The organization shall be called the 

''JOHN LOWE FAxMILY," 

and the original officers shall be:. 

President, Waldo. 

Secretary, Ellen. 

Treasurer, "Lulu." 

Committee of Research, Edna, Herbert and David ; 
and the above officers are expected to submit a constitu- 
tion and by-laws to a gathering to be held the coming 
wnnter. 

Arthur H. Lowe, Albert N. Lowe, 

Annie P. Lowe, Emma F^. Lowe, 

Mary V. Lowe, Ira A. Lowe, 

Herbert G. Lowe, Annie S. Lowe, 



Introduction. 

Waldo H. Lowe, J. E. Putnam, 

Mary L. Lowe, L. W. Merriam, 

Oriii M. Lowe, Ellen M. L. Merriam, 

Florence Webber Lowe, David Lowe, 

Lewis M. Lowe, Harriet L. Lowe, 

"Lulu" W. Lowe. Samuel H. Lowe, 

George R. Lowe, John A. Lowe, 

Mary E. Lowe, Marian A. Lowe, 

Frank E. Lowe, Ezra J. Riggs, 

Edna Lowe Putnam, Ida L. Lowe Riggs. 



The committee reported and the following Constitu- 
tion and By-Laws were adopted at the first meeting, 
held Thursday evening, Feb. 12, 1891, with Mr. and 
Mrs. Orin M. Lowe: 



CONSTITUTION. 

NAME AND OBJECTS. 

This society shall be known as the "John Lowe 
Family Circle." The object shall be to promote the high- 
est and best of family interests, and to accumulate and 
preserve all records of interest to the Circle. Also, the 
holding an annual gathering on the fourth day of July. 



BY-LAWS. 

ARTICLE I.— MEMBERS. 

Members of this Circle shall be: John Lowe and 
Mary A. Low^e (honorary members), their sons and 
daughters, and descendants, with their wives and hus- 
bands, who shall subscribe to Constitution and Bj^-Laws 
and pay an annual fee of ($1.50) one dollar and fifty 
cents. 



hitroduction. 5 

ARTICLE II. — OFFICERS. 

Section 1. The officers of this society shall be: Presi- 
dent, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, who shall 
be chosen by ballot at the annual meeting. 

Sec. 2. The officers for the first year shall be: Waldo 
H. Lowe, President; Arthur H. Lowe, Vice-President; 
Ellen M. L. Merriam, Secretary, and "Lulu" W. Lowe, 
Treasurer. 

ARTICLE m. — DUTIES. 

Section 1. It shall be the duty of the President to 
preside at all meetings of the Circle. In the absence of 
the President, it shall be the duty of the Vice-President 
to act in his stead. 

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep 
a careful and correct record of the proceedings of all 
meetings, in a book provided for the same, and to carry 
on all correspondence of the Circle. 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to col- 
lect all monies due the Circle, pay them out at the 
approval of the President, and keep a careful and correct 
account of the same in a book provided for the same, 
and report to the Circle at the annual meeting all receipts 
and disbursements. 

article IV. — TERMS OF OFFICE. 

Section 1. The President and Vice-President shall each 
hold office for one year or until their successors are duly 
chosen. 

Sec. 2. The Secretary and Treasurer shall each hold 
office for three years. 

Sec. 3. No officer shall be eligible to the same office 
two terms in succession. 

ARTICLE V. — COMMITTEES. 

Section 1. The President shall appoint a committee 
at each annual meeting, to consist of five members, whose 



hitrodiiction. 

duty it shall be to make arrangements for a picnic, which 
shall be the Fourth of Juh' picnic, at which may be pres- 
ent all members of the Circle, their families and friends. 

Sec. 2. The Committee of Research shall consist of 
three members, to find and report all matters of interest 
to the Circle, which shall be entered on the records by 
the Secretary-. Said committee shall be elected b3' ballot, 
one member each year, at the annual meeting, to hold 
office three 3'ears. The original committee shall be, viz.: 
Edna L. Putnam for one year, Herbert G. Lowe for two 
years, and David Lowe for three years. 

ARTICLE YI. — MEETINGS. 

Section 1. The annual meeting of the Circle shall be 
held on the second Tuesday of January of each 3^ear for 
the election of officers and such other business as may 
properly come before the meeting. 

Sec. 2. Special meetings shall be called b^- the Presi- 
dent or Vice-President at the written request of any four 
memljcrs, the Secretary sending a written notice to the 
members at least fifteen da3's before the meeting; said 
notice to state the object of the meeting. 

ARTICLE Vll. 

The Constitution and B3^-Laws ma3' be changed at 
any regular meeting by a two-thirds vote of all members 
present, provided notice of said change shall have- been 
mailed to each member one month before time of meeting. 



Introduction. 













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8 hitroductioft. 

The work has necessarily been slow, but we have at 
last accumulated quite an amount that your committee 
have spent much time and study to arrange in such form 
as would be acceptable to all. 

Our Fourth of July picnics have been held in Dr. 
Thomas Palmer's grove in Notown ; only twice they were 
held in West Acton with the brothers and sisters of Sarah 
Mead. Our annual meeting has been held with Arthur, 
Albert, Waldo, Harriet, Edna, Herbert and David ; in 
1898 it was held in G. A. R. hall, and 1900 in the John- 
sonia, when Frank being President and Samuel Vice-Presi- 
dent, they entertained the family. 

In order that the arrangement of the book may be 
better understood, Ave will say that the Lowes have been 
carried out in generations, and onh^ those who are again 
mentioned as having issues have been marked with a left- 
hand figure. Thus, if 3'ou wish to find the direct ancestry 
of John Lowe, by referring to the index \^ou will find his 
numbers to be (58-i.), also that he is the first child of 
David (4-3-v.) and Louisa A. (Messenger) Low^e; referring 
back, we find David (43-v.) is the fifth child of Joseph 
(15-ii.) and Mar}'- (Sawyer) Lowe; looking back to (15-ii.) 
we find that Joseph (15-ii.) was second child of Joseph 
(13-iv.) and Abigail (14-iii.) (Low) Lowe, and Joseph (13- 
iv.) w^as fourth child of David (9-i.) and Susannah (Lowe) 
Low; and David (9-i.) was oldest child of David (6-iv.) 
and Mary (Lamb) Low. David (6-iv.) was fourth child of 
Thomas (2-ii.) and Martha (Borman) Lo\v. Thomas 
(2-ii.) was second child of Thomas (1-i.). Then we have 
taken some of the ancestors of first, Mary Lamb, the 
wife of David (6-iv.) ; then Mary Sawyer, wife of Joseph 
(15-ii.); Louisa Adeline Messenger, Avife of David (43-v.), 
and then of Sarah Mead and Mary Russell, wives of John 
(58-i.) Lowe and the father of our Circle. 

Many letters have been written, and in almost every 
instance replies have been received ; many have been very 
helpful, so many we cannot mention any special ones 
without naming a long list, and we would like to take 
this w^ay of thanking them, one and all. We also wish 



Introduction. 9 

to thank the members of the Circle for their assistance, 
and hope the book will prove satisfactory, interesting and 
profitable. 

The first design of the publication was for the use of 
the "John Lowe Family Circle," but as several outside 
have expressed a wish to possess a copy we hope it will 
be interesting to them as well. 

Henry A. May of Roslindale has found for us a coat 
of arms, a copy of which ^^e have placed on the title 
page. The following are extracts from Mr. May's letter 
describing the coat of arms : 

I have carefully gone over all the principal genealogical and heraldic 
books of England in Boston, and we have the best in America. I took 
each county and looked over the different county pedigrees for Low and 
Lowe. 

I found the principal county families of the name in Worcestershire, 
Derbyshire, Kent, Cheshire, Wiltshire, Nottinghamshire, Devonshire, 
Shropshire and London. The principal seat of the family was in Wor- 
cestershire, and afterwards Derbyshire and elsewhere. 

I found numerous Thomas and John Low and Lowe, mostly in 
Worcestershire, DerbA-shire and London, but was unable to connect with 
our Thomas of Ipswich. My theory is that he came to America from 
London. There is the family of Low there at the time of his coming 
here, with his family names. This family in London was from Worces- 
tershire, and all the generations there for centuries of the family names 
of Thomas's family. The name is spelt Low and Lowe in this family. 
A large number of the Essex county families came from London, and 
many vessels sailed from London, that no list of passengers has been 
found. I do not find the family to any extent in Suffolk and Lincoln- 
shire except of a late date. 

In regard to the coat of arms, I have found the one that should be 
used by the descendants of Thomas Lowe in America. It is the oldest 
on record and is used by all the principal families of the name in Eng- 
land. *A shield (gules), and two wolves passant (argent), no crest or 
motto. In using this coat of arms, have it black lines only ; do not use 
the colors gules and argent. Do not use a crest or motto. 

tThe next oldest coat of arms is: A shield, three wolves' heads, 

*"A Display of Heraldry"' by John Guillim, Pursuivant of Arms, London, 
1744. Page 192, " He beareth gules two wolves passant — argent — by the name 
of Lowe." 

+ " Visitation of London, 1633, 1634, 1635," Vol. II. Same coat of arms. 
Thomas Low of the Lows of Worcestershire married Anne Foster and his pedi- 
gree is given from about 1500 to 1634. The names of Low and Foster were 
both represented in Ipswich, Mass., at its first settlement. 



1 /;/ tro duct ion . 

crest, a demi-grifEn rampant. Motto, " Spero Meliora." This is the 
earliest motto found, time of Elizabeth, and the above belonged to the 
Worcestershire family, one of the branches. 

tThe next coat of arms : A wolf passant, on shield. 

The above coats of arms all belonged to the same family of Low 
and Lowe, and the3' used different crests, but I found only the above 
motto. All of the Low-Lowe have the wolf in some form in all 
branches. 

Miss Eleanor L. Wile^^ deserves honorable mention for 
her patience and helpfulness in her tjq^ewriting for us. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Orin M. Lowe, 
Waldo H. Lowe, 
Ellen M. Merriam. 



{"Roll of Arms," time of Edward I. Nichole de Low had the same coat of 
arras. 



OUR FAMILY NAME. 



According to "English Surnames, an Essay on Family 
Nomenclature" by Mark Anthony, (London 1875, page 
78,) we find "a small round hill, (Anglo Saxon lowe,) a 
tumulus or barrow." 

"With our sheep upon the lowe." — Cursor Mundi. 

Sometimes it signifies a farm, otherwhile a grove. 

There is a story, we think it runs something like this : 
A Mr. McKenzie was persecuted and hunted for insurrec- 
tion, and upon being found in his home by the officers, he 
escaped from them from the back of the house, and look- 
ing back he saw his home in flames. To farther disguise 
himself, he gave his name from that time as Lowe, which 
in Scotch means a flame. 



CHAPTER I. 



*THE LOWS OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSA- 
CHUSETTS. 

Thomas (1-i.) Low of Chebacco, Ipswich, now Essex, 
was, with Httle doubt, son of Captain John Low, mas- 
ter of the ship Ambrose and vice-admiral of the fleet that 
brought over Governor Winthrop's colony in 1630. The 
cane and Bible said to have belonged to Captain John 
Low have been handed down in the families of the Essex 
Lo^ws and are now in the possession of Daniel W. Low of 
Essex, Mass., a descendant. The Bible was "Imprinted at 
London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Oueenes 
most excellent Majestic, dwelling in Pater Noster Rowe 
at the signe of the Tygreshead Anno 1579." "The whole 
Book of Psalms by Sternhold, Hopkins and others, printed 
by Derye, over Aldergate 1578." "Susanna Low her book 
1677, May 19." "Thomas Low his book." Thomas 
(1-i.) Low was born in England, and was a resident of 
Chebacco in 1641, if not earlier, before which time two 
at least of his five children were born. He died Sept. 8, 
1677. His will, dated April 30, 1677, was probated Nov. 
6, 1677, in which he left most of his estate to his son 
John, who married Sarah, daughter of John Thorndike of 
Beverly. To his son Thomas (2-ii.), who married Martha 
Boreman, (daughter of Thomas of Ipswich,) he gave £40, 
and to his grandchild, Thomas Low, who moved to 
Gloucester and married Sarah Symonds, daughter of Har- 
lakenden, granddaughter of Governor Samuel Symonds, 



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•Copied from a clipping taken from a Boston Transcript published in 1899. 
Sent me by Mrs, Edward A. Kilham. 



14 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

and became the ancestor of almost all the Low families 
there since, £5. 

The first item in his will was, "I give & bequeath 
unto Susannah m}^ Loving wife what goods she brought 
w^ith her and also I give her the use of that room which 
I lye in & the free use of those things that are in it and 
also the use of one cow which she liketh best & will is 
that my Sonne John shall maintain it wintefe & summer 
& also m3^ will is that if the Cow come to an^- casuality 
hee shall find her another Cow & maintain it likewise as 
beforesaid. Also I give unto my wife one-fourth part of 
her labor that she hath spunn both Lening & wollen & 
also she shall have her beere as she hath now^ & also 
free use of the fire : & also John shall reare her one 
Sheoate yearly for sume meate for her & also a little 
ground to sow half a peck of flax seede 3'early. And also 
to give unto her thirty shillings 3^early to be paid by my 
executor in such things as she shall stand in need of dur- 
ing her natural life. Moreover I give unto my loving wife 
five ponds to dispose of as she shall thinke good, and 
my will is that in case m\' wife shall thinke meete to 
remove from \\\y sonne John, then m\- will is that John 
Low paj' or cause to be paid to her forty shillings yearly 
& every j^eare during her natural life in such pay as she 
needeth. And also I give her the Cowe to be her owne & 
John to send the pay to Boston or Charlestown." 

His son John (4), who followed his father's business 
as maltster as well as yeoman, gave up making malt in 
1696. His son Thomas (2-ii.) served in King Philip's 
war, and had a grant of land in Narragansett Township 
No. 1, now Buxton, Me., for service. The records of Wa- 
tertown, Mass., give the death of "Susanna Low 19th of 
August, 1684. Aged about 86," and as no other Low is 
mentioned there in that century, and her death not found 
elsewhere, it is believed that she was widow of Thomas 
(1-i.), considering where her legac}^ was to be paid also. 
John Camden Hotten's "List of Emigrants," etc., pub- 
lished 1874, sa3^s : "One of the earliest acts of Charles 
the First — an act v^hich raised a storm of indignation 



of the John Loive Family Circle. 15 

throughout the country — was the imposition of a forced 
loan without the grant of parHament. The manner in 
which this unconstitutional measure was treated by those 
called upon to contribute towards the assessment is well 
illustrated by the events which took place in Lincolnshire, 
Eng., and a relation of the part taken by the leading 
men of that localitj^ some of whom were related to or 
intimately associated with the principal agents in the sub- 
sequent emigration to Massachusetts under John Win- 
throp in 1630, will be of some interest to the descendants 
of the New England emigrants. * * * ^ long list of 
Lincolnshire men who refused to contribute to the loan 
has been preserved. Ten of them were immediately com- 
mitted to prison. [Then follows a list of them.] The 
Boston men who refused to lend or enter into bond for 
this appearance before his majesty's privy council, beside 
the mayor and Alderman Tilson, were Atterton Houghe, 
Edmond Jackson, Benjamin Diconson, Thomas Leverett, 
Thomas Lowe, Thomas Tooly, John Coppyn, William 
Coddington, William Condy and Richard Westland. Of 
these, Leverett, Coddington and Houghe subsequently went 
out to New England, and there attained positions of emi- 
nence." Daniel W. Lowe, Salem, Mass. 

Of the twelve ships bearing emigrants to America in 
1630, Captain John Low was master of the ship Am- 
brose. Governor John Winthrop came in this fleet in the 
ship Arbella. In Gov. Winthrop's journal, page 1, we find 
the following account : 

"1630, March 29, Monday. 

Easter Monday : Riding at the Cowes near the Isle of 
Wight, in the Arbella, a ship of three hundred and fifty 
tons, whereof Capt. Peter Milbourn was master, being 
manned with fifty-two seamen and twenty-eight pieces of 
ordnance (the wind coming to N. by W. the evening 
before), in the morning there came aboard us Mr. Crad- 
dock, the late governor, and the masters of his two ships, 



16 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Capt. John Lowe, master of the Ambrose, and Mr. Nichols 
Hurlston, master of the Jewel, and Mr. Thomas Beeder, 
master of the Talbot (which three ships rode then by us 
— the Charles, the Mayflower, the William, and Francis — 
the Hopewell, the Whale, the Success, and the Trial being 
still at Hampton and not read^^), when upon conference 
it was agreed that (in regard it was uncertain when the 
other four ships of the fleet would be ready) these four 
ships should consort together; the Arbella to be admiral, 
the Talbot vice-admiral, the Ambrose rear-admiral, and 
the Jewel a captain. And accordingly articles of consort- 
ship were drawn between the said Captains & masters, 
w^hereupon Mr. Craddock took leave of us, and our Cap- 
tain gave him a farewell with four or five shot." 

After three months the fleet reached Salem. The Jewel 
and Ambrose had been separated from the rest of the 
fleet for a few daN's and so did not reach Salem until a 
few days after the others. July 8, 1630, a public Thanks- 
giving was observed in all the adjacent plantations. "Up- 
on the return vo3'age the Ambrose, Capt. John Low mas- 
ter, was disabled and lost at sea near Newfoundland." 
All this proves that Capt. John Low did not establish a 
home in New England, but it is possible and very proba- 
ble that his son Thomas Low did come to this country'- 
and became an inhabitant of Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, 
Mass., as early as 1641. He died Sept. 8, 1677, at Che- 
bacco ; his wnll has already been printed. His wife's name 
was Susannah and she died at Watertown Aug. 19, 1684, 
age about 86. 

Issue of Thomas (1-i). Low and Susannah his wife: 

i. Margaret, b. in England; m. April 8, 1657, Daniel David- 
son, who was afterwards Major General; she d. July 8, 1668. 
2— ii. Thomas, b. in England 1632; d. Apr. 12, 1712. 

iii. Sarah, b. ; m. Joseph Safford ; d. . 

iv. John, b. ; m. Dec. 10, 1661, Sarah Thorndike, dau. of John 

and Elizabeth Thorndike of Beverly; 2d, Dorcas. 



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of the Jo J in Loive Family Circle. 17 



SECOND GENERATION. 



3-ii. Thomas, b. in England 1632; d. Apr. 12, 1712; 
m. Jul3' 4, 1660, Martha Borman, dau. of Thomas and 
Margaret Borman of Ipswich; m. 2d, Mary Brown, 
Thomas Low was a leading spirit in the settlement. He 
was a commoner in 1668, deacon of the church in 1678, 
and d. April 12, 1712, age 80. We have a photograph, 
sent us by Mrs. Edward A. Kilham of Beverly, of the 
' "Old Low House" in Essex, Mass., which was built by 
this Thomas, who must have been a wealthy, honorable 
and influential citizen. 

Issue of Dea. Thomas (2-ii.) and Martha (Borman) 
Low: 

4— i. Thomas, b. April 14, 1661 ; d. Feb., 1698. 

ii. Samuel. 

5— iii. Jonathan, b. July 7, 1665; d. Feb. 8, 1750. 

6— iv. David, b. in Chebacco, Essex, Aug. 14, 1667. 

V. Johannah, b. March 10, 1669; m. 1st, David Dodger of Wen- 
ham; 2d, Joseph Hale of Boxford. 

vi. Martha, m. Nov. 16, 1694, Richard Dodger; d. Feb. 2, 1737. 

vii. Nathaniel, b. June 7, 1672; d. July 30, 1695. 

viii. Sarah, m. 1st, John Grover of Beverly; 2d, Nathaniel Webster. 

ix. Abigail, m. Joseph Goodhue. ' 

X. Samuel, b. April, 1676; d. June 2, 1723. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

4-i. Thomas, b. April 14, 1661; d. Feb., 1698; m. 
Dec. 2, 1681, Sarah Simonds, dau. of Harlakenden Si- 
monds, Deputy Governor, son of Gov. Samuel Simonds, 
and went to Gloucester. This Thomas served in King 
Philip's war. His widow was in Gloucester several years 
after his death. 

Issue of Thomas (4-i.) and Sarah (Simonds) Low: 

i. SiMOND, b. Nov. 21, 1689: m. Dec. 18, 1719, Sarah Davies. 

ii. Thomas, b. Oct. 3, 1692. 

iii. Elizabeth, born Nov. 20, 1695. 

7— iv. John, b. in Gloucester Oct. 28, 1697. 



18 The Ancestors a7id Their Descendants 

5-iii. Jonathan, b. July 7, 1665; m. Mar. 8, 1692, 
Mary Thomson; d. Feb. 8, 1750. 

Issue of Jonathan (5-iii.) and Mary (Thomson) Low: 

i. Mary, b. Feb. 1, 1693. 

ii. Martha, b. March 11, 1695-6. 

iii. Johanna, b. Feb. 25, 1699. 

iv. Susannah, b. June 7, 1701. 

Y. Margaret, b. Aug. 4, 1703. 

8— vi. Jonathan, b. at Ipswich, Sept. 14, 1708. 

6-iv. David, b, in Chebacco, Essex, Aug. 14, 1667; 
m. Dec. 28, 1699, Mary Lamb; d. June 2, 1746, in Ips- 
wich. His will is dated March 14, 1745, and probated 
June 16, 1746. In a deed dated Oct. 5, 1736, he gives to 
his son, David Low, Jr., "his part of land granted to a 
certain number of men, which formerly \vent in an expe- 
dition to Canada under Sir William Phipps, of which I, 
David Lowe, was one." This expedition arrived Ijefore 
Quebec, Nov. 5, 1690, and was repulsed with heavy loss. 
The land thus granted was in New Hampshire. David's 
rank in the army was that of sergeant. His will names 
sons David, Jeremiah, Caleb, Stephen and Joshua, gives 
each five shillings old tenor, and to David his andirons ; 
names daughters, Marj-, wife of Jeremiah Lufkin, Martha, 
wife of Eleazer Croft or Craft, Abigail and Eunice. No 
inventor^^ indicated previous division of property. 

Issue of David (6-iv.) and Mary (Lamb) Low: 

9— i. David, b. 1701. 

ii. Jeremiah, m. April 4, 1732, Lydia Gilbert. 
10 — iii. Caleb, m. Jan. 8, 1732, Abigail Varnev. 

iv. Stephen, m. Jan. 31, 1733-4, Sarah Low; he was killed at the 

battle of Ticonderoga, July 8, 1758. 
V. Joshua, m. 1st, Aug. 8, 1734, Susannah Butler; 2d, April 3, 

1760, Widow Anna Boardnian. 
vi. Mary, m. Aug. 24, 1723, Jeremiah Lufkin. 
vii. AIartha, m. Eleazer Crafts, Private, 
viii. Abigail. 
ix. Eunice. 



of the John Lozve Family Circle. 19 

FOURTH GENERATION. 

7-iv. John, b. in Gloucester Oct. 28, 1697; m. Mary 
Allen, dau. of Capt. John Allen. 

Issue of John (7-iv.) and Mary (Allen) Low, alllDelong- 
ins: to Gloucester: 



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i. Mary, b. Nov. 13, 1726; m. Dr. Samuel Plummer. 

ii. John, b. May 17, 1728; m. April 30, 1752. Sarah Gee, dau. of 
Rev. Josiah Gee, pastor of the Old North Church. He be- 
came a prominent man in Gloucester, and died Nov. 3, 1796. 

iii. Joseph, b. Oct. 28, 1729. 

iv. William, b. April 8, 1731; m. 1st, July 28, 1751, Dorcas 
Eleroy; 2d, April 30, 1767, Judith Day, and had eleven chil- 
dren. 

V. Joseph, b. Jan. 25, 1733; m. April 12, '1755, Elizabeth Robin- 
son. 

vi. A.NNA, b. Jan. 30, 1740; d. 1741. 

vii. Susannah Allen, b. Sept. 27, 1741. 

viii. Josiah, b. Feb. 26, 1747. 

ix. Nathaniel, m. 1st, Oct. 7, 1758, EHzabeth Fellows; 2d, Sept. 
9, 1775, Mary Riggs. He was lost in privateer Tempest in 
the Revolution; he was second officer. 

X. Benjamin. 

xi. David. 

8-vi. Jonathan, b. at Ipswich Sept. 14, 1708; m. 
Nov. 18, 1731, Sarah Perkins, who was b. in Ipswich 
1711; she was a dau. of Abraham Perkins and Abigail 
Dodger. They moved to Lunenburg in 1763; had thir- 
teen children. 

Issue of Jonathan (8-vi.) and Sarah (Perkins) Low: 

i. Benoni, b. Aug. 16, 1732; d. Feb. 22, 1808. 
ii. A daughter, b. Oct. 11, 1733; d. 1733. 

iii. Sarah, b. Oct. 6, 1734; m. Choate. 

iv. Elizabeth, b. April 1, 1736; m. Kimball. 

v. Richanna, b. Feb. 10, 1738. 

vi. Mary, b. Jan. 11, 1740; m. 1st, ' Stearns; 2d, Esterbrooks; 

3d, Raught or Knight, 
vii. Abigail, b. Jan. 17, 1740; d. 1741. 
viii. Abigail, b. Jan. 23, 1742. 

ix. Hannah, b. July 11, 1744; m. Goodridge. 

X. Johannah, b. June 17, 1746. 
xi. Jonathan, b. Aug. 13, 1748. 



20 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

xii. William, b. Oct. 31, 1750. 

xiii. Abigail, b. March 29, 1753; m. July 7, 1774, David Ritter. 
11— xiv. Abraham, b. Feb. 11, 1755; d Oct. 23, 1834. 
XV. Frances, Jan. 23, 1757; d. Aug. 3, 1807. 
xvi. James, b. Feb. 8, 1759; d. 1759. 

9-i. Capt. David Lowe, Gentleman, b. 1701 ; pub- 
lished April 11, 1724. His wife was Susanna Low, prob- 
ably a dau. of Jonathan and Mary (Thomson) Low. He 
lived in Chebacco, and d. July 10, 1771 ; his wife Susanna 
d. Feb. 16, 1775. 

A deed in Essex registry shows that David Low, Jr., 
of Chebacco, maltster, and his wife Susanna deeded to 
Thomas Bumam for two hundred and forty-one pounds 
seventeen acres of upland in Chebacco, bounded by land 
of Sergt. Jonathan Lowe, Samuel Low's heirs, Thomas 
Gidding, Thomas Pickering, Zachery Story and Robert 
Rust. 

The following is a copy of a deed from William Hen- 
derson to David Low, recorded in the Worcester District 
Registry of Deeds, Book 49, Page 59: 

Know all men by these presents. That I, William Henderson of Lu- 
nenburg, in the County of Worcester, and Province of Massachusetts 
Bay in New England. Husbandman, in consideration of the just sum of 
Two hundred and twenty-six pounds Thirteen shillings and four pence 
to me in hand paid before the delivery hereof by David Low, Ipswich, 
in the County of Essex, and the Province aforesaid, Gent., I have given, 
granted, bargained, and sold, and do by these presents give, grant, bar- 
gain, sell, allien, and fully, freely and absolutely convey and confirm 
unto the said David Low, his heirs and assigns forever, a certain tene- 
ment or Farm situate lying and being in Lunenburg aforesaid, consist- 
ing of a mantion house and Barn and forty acres of land Bounded as 
follows, viz.: Beginning Northwardly near the brook by certain marked 
trees, Easterly partly on land belonging to Thomas Dutton and lands 
of Samuel Hunts, Southwardly on said Hunts land & westerly on lands 
of Edward Hartwell, Esq., and others, also a cider Mill & press. To 
have and to hold the said granted and bargained premises together 
with all their appurtences free of all encumberences Whatsoever To him 
the said David Low his heirs and assigns as an absolute Estate of in- 
heritances in fee simple forever, and I the said William Henderson for 
myself and my heirs, executors and administrators do covenants and 
engage the above devised premises to him the said David Low, his heirs 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 21 

and assignes, against the lawful! claims and demands of any person or 

persons Whatsoever, forever hereafter to Warrant, secure and defend by 

these presents. 

In witness Whereof I do hereunto set my hand and seal this twelfth 

Day of April anno domini one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three 

and In the third year of the Reign of our sovereign Lord— by the Grace 

of God of Great Britain, etc., King, etc., and I, Sarah, wife of said Wm. 

Henderson do give up any right of dower and power of thirds to the 

premises. 

his 
William x Henderson, (L. S.) 

mark 
her 

Sarah x Henderson. (L. S.) 

mark 
Signed, sealed and delivered in presents of 
Jonathan Low, 
Job Giddings. 

Worcester ss. received of David Low aforesaid the consideration 

above mentioned by me 

his 

Wm. X Henderson. 

mark 

Worcester ss. May the 19th. Then William Henderson above 

named appeared personally and owned the above written instrument to 

be his free act and deed 

Coram Benj. Goodridge, Justiciana Peace. 

Rec'd Aug. N. 18th, 1763, and accordingly entd. and examined by 

Tim Paine, Reg. 

His will names sons David, Ebenezer, and Joseph, our 
great-grandfather. He left to his wife one-third of his 
real estate and personal property, enjoined on his sons, 
David and Ebenezer, to provide her firewood, also a horse 
and person to ride before her to meeting and elsewhere as 
she shall have occasion; and her son Joseph, to whom he 
had in 1763 given a farm of forty-three acres in Fitch- 
burg, whither Joseph and his family had removed, to pay 
her yearly one pound, six shillings. 

To his daughters, Susanna, and Martha Lowe Per- 
kins, he wills the widow's thirds when she shall die to be 
divided between them, and also gives to Martha, besides 
what she has already had, nineteen pounds, six shillings, 
eight pence. 

The estate inventoried twelve hundred and two pounds, 
five shillings. 



22 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Issue of David (9-i.) and Susannah (Low) Low: 

i. Mary, bap. April 24, 1726; m. Nov. 28, 1751, General, also 
Deacon Stephen Choate; she died about 1768; he died Oct. 
19, 1815; left nine children. 
12— ii. David, bap. May 5, 1728; d. August, 1782. 

iii. Susannah, bap. April 5, 1730; d. before 1734. 
13— iv. Joseph, bap. Dec. 12, 1731. 

V. Susannah, bap. July 7, 1734; m. Sept. 5, 1771, Enoch Blake 
of Salisbury. 

vi. Martha, bap. July 18, 1736; d. before 1738. 

vii. Martha, bap. Sept. 24, 1738; m. Nov. 26, 1761, Francis Per- 
kins. 

viii. Ebenezer, bap. Oct. 4, 1741 ; m. Jan. 9, 1756, Martha Story. 
There was an Ebenezer Low in an Ipswich company at 
Bunker Hill. 

10-iii. Caleb, m. Jan. 8, 1732, Abigail Vamey. 
Issue of Caleb (10-iii.) and Abigail (Varney) Low. 

i. Catherine, b. March 14, 1733. 

ii. Abigail, b. Sept. 10, 1735. 

14 — iii. Abigail, b. Sept. 1, 1737; m. Joseph Low. 

iv. Caleb, bap. July 8, 1739. 

V. Nathan, b. Oct. 1, 1742. 

vi. Thomas, b. Feb. 20, 1744. 

vii. Mary, b. May 7, 1747. 

viii. William, b. Nov. 4. 1751; d. 1752. 

ix. William, b. May 27, 1754. 

X. Jeremiah, b. Dec. 17, 1756. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 

11-xiv. Abraham, b. Feb. 11, 1755, in Chebacco 
Parish, Ipswich; m. Oct. 30, 1788, Charlotte Hale; died 
Oct. 23, 1834; removed to Ashburnham in 1785-6 and 
died there. 

Issue of Dr. Abraham (ll-xiv.) and Charlotte (Hale) 
Lowe : 

i. Nathan Hale, b. July 21, 1789; d. Dec. 13, 1789. 

ii. Abigail, b. Jan. 24, 1791 ; m. Dr. William H. Cutler. 

iii. Charlotte, b. May 29, 1793; m. June 4, 1840, David Good- 
win, Esq., of Chelsea, Vt. After his death she resided in 
Ashburnham, where she died March 2, 1877. 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 23 

iv. Abraham Thomson, b. Aug. 15, 1796; m. 1st, Oct. 20, 1822, 
Emma B. Gould of Ashby, who died Aug. 9, 1833: 2d, Nov. 
6, 1836, Susan Burr of Ashby, who died May 16, 1843; 3d, 
April 5, 184.4, EHza B. Burr, who died Nov. 5, 1860; 4th, 
April 30, 1862, Cordelia Burdett. 

V. Thomas Hale, b. Nov. 27, 1799; d. Jan. 13, 1800. 

vi. Mary Hale, b. May 9, 1801; m. Samuel Woods. 

vii. George Henry, b. May 12, 1803. 

viii. Benoni, b. Sept. 19, 1807; d. Feb. 22, 1808. 

12-ii. David, bap. May 5, 1728; m. Abigail Choate; 
d. Aug., 1782. 

Issue of David (12-ii.) and Abigail (Choate) Low: 

i. Capt. David, b. in Essex about 1755; m. May 26, 1778, Han- 
nah Haskell of Gloucester; he died at sea 1797. 

13-iv. Joseph, bap. Dec. 12, 1731 ; m. Jan. 12, 1758, 
Abigail Low, dau. of Caleb (10-iii.) and Abigail Varney- 
they moved onto what was then called Appletree Hill, a 
part of Lunenburg, now between Blossom and Mechanic 
streets, Fitchburg, in 1763, which is proved by the deed 
on page 20, the land having been purchased by his father, 
David Low (9-i.). 

Issue of Joseph (13-iv.) and Abigail (14-iii.) (Low) 
Low^e : 

14— i. Abigail, m. July, 1783, John Upton; d. Sept. 7, 1829. 

15— ii. Joseph, Jr., bap. April 24, 1763. 

16— iii. Mary, m. Amos Wheeler, who died Feb. 29, 1844. 



CHAPTER II. 

Descendants of Abigail Lowe, Daughter of Joseph 
(13-iY.) AND Abigail (14-iii.) Lowe, who married 
John Upton. 

We have reached the period when our ancestors, Jo- 
seph Lowe and his wife Abigail, came to Appletree Hill, 
then a part of Lunenburg, some time, probably, during 
the year 1763, as the deed of land conveyed to his father, 
David Low (9-i), by William Henderson is dated April, 
1763, and Joseph Lowe is taxed the next year. Joseph 
and Abigail brought with them two children, Abigail and 
Joseph, Jr., who were born in Ipswich; Mary was born 
afterwards in Fitchburg, and we have nearly all of the 
descendants of their three children. 

Some of the descendants who have gone West we 
have not been able to find, and some have not considered 
it of enough importance to answer our letters. 

All were born in Fitchburg not otherwise stated. 

SIXTH GENERATION. 

John Upton, the eldest son of William and Hannah 
(Stanley) Upton, was born in North Reading 1758 and 
married Abigail Low (14-iii.) July, 1783. He d. October, 
1811, aged 53, at the home of his eldest son, Joseph 
(17-i.), in Fitchburg. His widow, Abigail, d. in the same 
family Sept. 7, 1829, age 68. 

Issue of John and Abigail (14-iii.) (Low) Upton, all 
born in Fitchburg, Mass.: 

17— i. Joseph, b. July 3, 1784. 

ii. John, b. Aug. 7, 1787; m. Cunningham of Tennessee. 

He d. of cholera at Keeseville, 111., Sept. 1, 1834; he had 
three sons. 



TJie John Lozve Family Circle. 25 

iii. Abigail, b. Oct. 22, 1789; d. of liver complaint in Fitchburg 
in 1811. 
18— iv. Timothy Felton, b. Nov. 12, 1792. 

V. Mahitable, b. June 22, 1794; m. Thomas Sweetser of Fitch- 
burg, Jan. 12, 1814, and removed to Lowell, where she d. 
Feb., 1838. 

vi. Lucy, b. May 31, 1798; m. Joseph Wiggin and removed to 
Boston, where she d. Sept., 1830. 

vii. William, b. Aug. 23, 1803; unmarried; d. at Maumee City, 
Ohio, Sept., 1827. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 

17-i. Joseph Upton, b. July 3, 1784; m. Feb. 12, 
1807, Susan Thurston. 

Issue of Joseph (17-i.) and Susan (Thurston) Upton. 

19— i. Joseph, b. Oct. 15, 1807. 

20— ii. Mary Thurston, b. Nov. 10, 1809. 

21— iii. Thomas, b. Aug. 22, 1813. 

22— iv. Edwin, b. Dec. 9, 1815. 

23— V. John, b. Dec. 29, 1817. 

24— vi. Susan Abigail, b. July 20, 1819. 

25— vii. Charles, b. Nov. 4, 1821. 

26— viii. Martha Ann, b. Feb. 27, 1826. 

18-iv. Timothy Felton Upton, b. Nov. 12, 1792; 
m. Eunice Vinton, b. in Goshen, Mass., April 23, 1802. 
He d. in Maumee Cit}^ Ohio, Jan. 15, 1831. 

Issue of Timothy Felton (18-iv.) and Eunice (Vinton) 
Upton : 

i. Angeline L., m. Samuel W. Young, a lawyer of Maumee City, 

but a native of Lebanon, N. H. 
ii. John V., b. ; he was in California in 1854. 

iii. A daughter, d. soon after the father d. 



EIGHTH GENERATION. 

19-i. Joseph Upton, b. Oct. 15, 1807; m. 1st, Jan. 

20, 1831, Betsey Messenger (109-iv.), who was b. Jan. 

21, 1806, a dau. of Calvin and Betsey (Philhps) Messen- 



26 The Ancestors and Their Descefidants 

ger. She d. of paralysis Dec. 25, 1864; m. 2d, March 28, 
1866, AmeHa F. Lowe, widow of David Sawyer (57-iY.) 
Lowe ; her maiden name was Vose. 

"At the age of sixteen he became an apprentice to 
David Low (43-v.) to learn the trade of mason. During 
his apprenticeship he was a subject of converting grace 
and early connected himself with the Orthodox church in 
Fitchburg. Of this church he was an active member till 
his death." 

He labored at his trade till about thirty years of age, 
when he bought a farm in the southwestern part of 
Fitchburg, which he cultivated during the rest of his life. 
He had a health}-, vigorous constitution and was sick but 
once. He was a great lover of music, and led the choir 
more than twenty years. He was a captain in the mili- 
tia. He d. March 14, 1870, the result of a fall from an 
upper scaffold in his barn. 

Issue of Joseph (19-i.) and Betsey (Messenger) Upton: 

27— i. Susan Elizabeth, b. Oct. 9, 1831. 

ii. Calvin, born May 21, 1833; d. from the accidental discharge 
of a gun in his own hands, Oct. 3, 1849, age 16. 
28— iii. Jane Augusta, b. Jan. 19, 1835. 

iv. Emily M., b. Dec. 31, 1836; m. John Marshall Farnsworth 
Dec. 20, 1859; d. in Fitchburg. 
29— V. Louisa Adeline, b. Feb. 1, 1839. 
30— vi. Harrison, b. Dec. 2, 1840. 

vii. Mary T.. b. April 11, 1843; m. Oct. 19, 1868, George M. 

Bowker of Fitchburg; d. June 16, 1870, in Fitchburg. 
viii. Daniel C, b. June 21, 1844; d. Aug. 29, 1844. 
ix. Lydia H., b. Aug. 27, 1846; d. Aug. 12, 1847. 
31 — X. Abby Caroline, b. Nov. 2, 1849. 

Issue by second wife, Amelia (Vose) (Lowe) Upton: 

32 — xi. Susan Amelia, born April 8, 1867. 
33— xii. George V., b. July 6, 1868. 



30-u. Mary Thurston Upton, b. Nov. 10, 1809; 
m. April 30, 1833, Jonathan Burrage; d. at Fitchburg 
June 22, 1841. He d. in Roxbury, Mass., July 5, 1854. 
They had four sons. 



of the JoJin Lowe Family Circle. 27 

Issue of Mary T. Upton (20-ii.) and Jonathan Bur- 
rage: 

i. Thomas Fairbanks, b. July 4, 1834; m. Jan. 14, 1857, Har- 
riet L. Battis. He enlisted as a private Aug. 13, 1862; d. 
from chronic diarrhoea at Baton Rouge, April 29, 1863. 

ii. Henry Sweetser, b. ; entered the Theological Institute 

at Newton, Mass. He enlisted Aug. 1, 1862, as a private 
in Co. A of the 36th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. 
Mustered out of service June 8, 1865, as Acting Assistant 
Adjutant-General, First Brigade, Second Division, Ninth 
Army Corps. Returned to the seminary at Newton and was 
graduated in 1867. Ordained pastor of the Baptist church 
at Waterville, Me., Dec. 30, 1869. He was married in the 
spring of 1873 to a daughter of Rev. J. T. Champlin, D. D., 
then president of Colby University in Waterville, Me. 

iii. William Upton, b. Dec. 22, 1838; d. Aug. 12, 1839. 

iv. Edwin Augustus, born Nov. 21, 1840; d. Sept. 15, 1841. 

31-iii. Thomas Upton, b. Aug. 22, 1813; m. March 
3, 1836, Abigail Downe, dau. of Dea. Timothy F. Downe; 
d. July 28, 1896. 

Issue of Thomas (21-iii.) and Abigail (Downe) Upton. 

i. Harriet Downe, b. in Fitchburg, Feb. 26, 1838, d. Jan. 1, 

1899. 
ii. Charles Emerson, b. in Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 14, 1843; killed 

in battle at Arrowfield Church, May 9, 1864. 
iii. Mary Emma, b. in Maumee City, Ohio, Sept. 20, 1845; m. 

Harvard Brooks Pitts, Jan. 21, 1879. 

33-iv. Edwin Upton, b. Dec. 9, 1815; m. 1st, Nov. 
10, 1842, Louisa Maria Farwell, a native of Hoosick, 
N. Y., who d. Aug. 8, 1882; m. 2d, March 29, 1883, 
Lucy Putnam, widow of James P. Putnam ; he died May 
10, 1890. 

Issue of Edwin (22-iv.) and Louisa M. (Farwell) 
Upton : 

i. A son, b. in Nov., 1845; d. 1845. 

33-v. John Upton, b. Dec. 29, 1817; m. April 5, 
1848, Louisa C. Willis, b. June 17, 1828. 



28 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Issue of John (23-v.) and Louisa C. (Willis) Upton: 

i. Frederic Willis, b. April 8, 1852; was graduated from High- 
land Military Academ_v at Worcester June 30, 1870. He d. 
Oct. 7, 1870, of typhoid fever. 
34— ii. Amy Louisa, b. June 11, 1858. 

34-vi. Susan Abigail Upton, b. July 20, 1819; m. 
May 26, 1840, James P. Putnam; d. of erysipelas Nov. 
26, 1860. "She was a superior woman, honored and 
respected by all." Mr. Putnam died of paralysis Feb. 4, 
1877. 

Issue of Susan Abigail (Upton) (24-vi.) and James P. 
Putnam : 

i. Ann Maria, b. March 23, 1841; m. by the Rev Alfred Emer- 
son, Horatio G. Nutter, Jan. 24, 1867. 
ii. Thomas Farrington, born Aug. 30, 1842. 
35— iii. Daniel Cowdin, b. March 10, 1844. 
36— iv. James Edward, b. July 22, 1845. 
v. Frederic Adams, b. April 8, 1847. 

vi. Charles Benjamin, b. Sept. 29, 1848 ; d. of ulceration of the 
lungs July 30, 1849, occasioned by inhaling a head of herds- 
grass, 
vii. Frank Porter, b. March 21, 1851. 
viii. Walter Herbert, b. Aug. 25, 1852. 
ix. William Sweetser, b. Nov. 13, 1858. 

25-vii. Charles Upton, b. Nov. 4, 1821 ; m. Dec. 
16, 1845, b^' Rev. Varnum Lincoln, to Sarah Amelia Ha- 
gar of Westminster, Mass., b. Oct. 15, 1820. He d. Jan. 
13, 1897. 

Issue of Charles (25-vii.) and Sarah Amelia (Hagar) 
Upton : 

37— i. George Clinton, b. in Fitchburg Dec. 22, 1847. 

ii. Charles Herbert, born in Westminster May 11, 1850; d. in 

Mouticello, Minn., Jan. 19, 1892. 
iii. Lillian, b. in Westminster Nov. 19, 1852; d. Oct. 15, 1853. 

Ji6-viii. Martha Ann Upton, b. Feb. 27, 1826; m. 
Sept. 18, 1845, George Curtis of Roxbury. They were m. 
at Fitchburg by Rev. Calvin Lincoln of Hingham. Mrs. 
Susan (Thurston) Upton, the mother of Mrs. Curtis, was 



of the Jo Jin Lowe Family Circle. 29 

living with her and enjoying good health at the age of 
84, in Feb., 1872. 

Issue of Martha Ann (Upton) (26-viii.) and George 
Curtis, all born in Roxbury except George Herbert, who 
was born in Fitchburg. The deceased children, except 
George Francis, d. in Roxbury; he d. in Fitchburg. 

i. George Francis, b. Oct. 30, 1847; d. June 9, 1848. 

ii. Mary Abby, born April 16, 1849; d. April 22, 1849. 

iii. George Herbert, b. June 29, 1850; d. .^ug. 3, 1851. 

38— iv. Henry Clifford, b. Aug. 31, 1852. 

V. Charles Wilmot, b. Dec. 18, 1854; d. March 14, 1856. 

39— vi. Martha Gertrude, b. Sept. 9, 1857. 

40— vii. Edwin Upton, b. March 26, 1861. 

41— viii. Nelson, b. Jan. 17, 1864. 

ix. George, b. Dec. 26, 1866; d. Dec. 17, 1867. 

X. Susan Thurston, b. June 27, 1869; d. June 30, 1869. 



NINTH GENERATION. 

^7-i. Susan Elizabeth Upton, b. Oct. 9, 1831; m. 
March 2, 1854, Maraton Upton. She d. in Carson City, 
Nevada, Jan. 30, 1862. 

Issue of Susan Elizabeth (Upton) (27-i.) and Mara- 
ton Upton : 

i. William Maraton, b. in Fitchburg, Sept. 11, 1856; d. in 
Fitchburg Oct. 17, 1857. 

ii. Susan Elizabeth, b. in Carson Cit}', Jan. 21, 1862; d. in Car- 
son City, Aug. 20, 1862. 

38-iii. Jane Augusta Upton, b. Jan. 19, 1835; m. 
Eben N. Leavens in Chicago Sept. 7, 1859. She d. in 
Fairbault, Minn., Dec. 24, 1863. 

Issue of Jane A. (Upton) (28-iii.) and Eben B. Leavens: 

i. Frank N., b. in Fairbault, Minn.. May 25, 1860; m. April 23, 
1889, Ida M. Farlee. 

29-v. Louisa Adeline Upton, b. Feb. 1, 1839; m. 
Edward J. Davis at Pittsfield, Mass., June 25, 1862; lives 
in Fitchburg. 



30 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Issue of Louisa Adeline (Upton) (29-v.) and Edward 
J. Davis : 

4-2— i. Gertrude Louisa, b. Jan. 23, 1865, in North Adams, Mass. 
ii. Walter E., b. in Fitchburg Nov. 2, 1866; died Sept. 4, 1868. 
iii. Grace Upton, b. in Lunenburg Aug. 23, 1871 ; graduated 

from Fitchburg high school 1890 and has since taught in 

the pubHc schools of the city, 
iv. Mary Emily, b. Nov. 15, 1873; married June 30, 1896, El- 
• wood E. Taylor; graduated from Fitchburg high school 

1891; taught some in public schools. 
'V. Bessie C, b. July 12, 1877; graduated from Fitchburg high 

school 1896, from State normal school in Fitchburg 1898} 

taught school for a while. 

30-vi. Harrison Upton, b. Dec. 2, 1840; m. 1st, 
Dec. 14, 1870, at Marlborough, N. H., Sarah M. Green- 
wood; 2d, Alarch 16, 1887, Louisa Adeline Burgess. 

Issue of Harrison (SO-vi.) and Sarah AI. (Greenwood) 
Upton : 

i. Lizzie Marcella, b. Dec. 18, 1874; d. May 26, 1892. 
Of second wife, Louisa Adeline Burgess: 

ii. Ethelyn, b. May 14, 1890. 

31-x. Abby Caroline Fuller, b. Nov. 2, 1849; m. 
Simeon Fuller Aug. 6, 1867, at Worcester. 

Issue of Abb^' Caroline (Upton) (31-x.) and Simeon 
Fuller : 

i. Alice Cora, b. in Fitchburg, Nov. 20, 1870; graduated from 
Fitchburg high school 1890; from Wesleyan University, 
Middletown. Conn., 1894; taught in Orange high school 
and Cushing academy, and for three years was principal of 
Evansville Girls' school in Evansville, Ind. 

33-xi. Susan Amelia Upton, b. April 8, 1867; grad- 
uated from Fitchburg high school 1886; m. June 28, 
1888, Harry Garthwaite Townend, who was born April 
14, 1862, in Johnson, O. Spent one year in Greeley, Col., 
and six months in Washington, D. C; since resided in 
Fitchburg. 



of the John Lozve Family Circle. 31 

Issue of Susan Amelia (Upton) (32-xi.) and H. G. 
Townend : 

i. Robert Vose, b. Aug. 17, 1892. 

ii. Maurice Garthwaite, b. Feb. 27, 1900. 

33-xii. George Vose Upton, b. July 6, 1868; m. in 
the C. C. church of Fitchburg Monday evening, Sept. 28, 
1891, Helen Abbott Mason, b. Nov. 19, 1867. 

Issue of George Vose (33-xii.) and Helen A. (Mason) 
Upton : 

i. Frances Elizabeth, b. Nov. 1, 1892. 

ii. Helen Beatrice, b. Nov. 24, 1893. 

iii. Dorothy Christine, b. Feb. 9, 1899. 

iv., V. George V., Jr., and Joseph, b. Nov. 10, 1900. 

34-ii. Amy Louisa Upton, b. June 11, 1858; ni. Oct. 
23, 1879, Herbert Ingalls Wallace. , 

Issue of Amy Louisa (Upton) (34-ii.) and Herbert I. 
Wallace : 

i. Frederic, b. Aug. 14-, 1880. 

ii. Rodney, b. Dec. 24, 1882; d. Dec. 11, 1895. 

iii., iv. Sophia Ingalls and Amy Louise, b. May 3, 1885; Amy L. 

d. Aug. 13, 1885. 
v. Robert, b. Sept. 28, 1888. 

35-iii. Daniel Cowdin Putnam, b. March 10, 1844; 
m. to Kate E. Urner by Rev. William Baker, at Wards- 
worth, Dec. 15, 1875. He entered the army on his 18th 
birthday and served until the end of the civil war. He 
d. at Springfield, O., June 18, 1888. 

Issue of Daniel C. (35-iii.) and Kate E. (Urner) Put- 
nam, b. in Springfield, O. 

i. Gertrude Curtis, b. Nov. 9, 1876; d. June 6, 1878. 

ii. Helen Clifford, b. May 2, 1878; was educated in the public 
schools of Springfield and graduated with honors from the 
high school in June, 1895. Entered Berea college in 1896 
and continued as a student until spring of 1897, then 
entered the State normal school in Normal, 111. After attend- 
ing the normal school four terms she accepted a position on 



32 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

the faculty of Berea college. After serving successfully in 
this position for a 3'ear she returned to the normal school 
and graduated in the class of 1900. 

iii. Mabel Urner, b. Feb. 9, 1880; d. Aug. 6, 1880. 

iv. Ethel Upton, b. May 21, 1883; educated in the public schools 
of Springfield and Berea college; at present is head trimmer 
in millinery- establishment of Miss Jennie Fish of Berea, 
Kentucky'. 

V. Ruth, b. Jan. 27, 1888; a student in Berea college. 

36-iv. James Edward Putnam, b. July 22, 1845 ; m. 
1st, Nellie Brown, by Rev. S. J. Bronson, at Millbury Oct. 
6, 1870. Nellie d. of cancer Feb. 18, 1881; m. 2rl,'Edna 
Mary Lowe, by Rev. G. R. W. Scott, Feb. 22, 1883. He 
resides on the Putnam homestead. He served the city as 
alderman in 1899. 

Issue of James E. (36-iv.) and Nellie (Brown) Putnam: 

i. Frank Webster, b. March 23, 1873; d. July 23, 1887, of 
rheumatism of the heart. 

Of second wife, Edna M. Lowe (82-ii.): 

ii. Helen Edna, b. Aug. 8, 1885; in the Fitchburg high school, 
class of 1902. 

37 -i. George Clinton Upton, b. in Fitchburg Dec. 
22, 1847; m. Abbie S. Brown Dec. 10, 1872. Lives in 
Gardner. 

Issue of George Clinton (37-i.) and Abbie S. (Brown) 
Upton. 

i. Edwin, b. in Gardner April 4, 1878 ; m. May 3, 1899, Carrie 
A. Holden. 

38-iv. Henry Clifford Curtis, b. Aug. 31, 1852; 
m. Oct. 21, 1874, Agnes Gove Whyte, who was b. March 
27, 1855. 

Issue of Henrj^ Clifford (38-iv.) and Agnes Gove 
(Whyte) Curtis: 

i. George Oliver, b. July 29, 1875. 

ii. Mabel Whyte, b. June 27, 1877; m. Oct. 10, 1900, John An- 
drew Curtin. 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 33 

39-vi. Martha Gertrude Curtis, b. Sept. 9, 1857; 
m. Dec. 18, 1883, Martin Luther Gate, b. Feb. 6, 1855. 

Issue of Martha Gertrude (Curtis) (39-Yi.) and Mar- 
tin Luther Cate : 

i. Curtis Wolsey, b. Dec. 5. 1884. 

ii. Gertrude Curtis, b. Nov. 25, 1885. 

iii. Kate Springer, b. April 13, 1887. 

iv. Philip Thurston, b. Nov. 16, 1891. 

V. Martha, b. April 25, 1893. 

40-vii. Edwin Upton Curtis, b. March 26, 1861; 
m. Margaret Maud Waterman Oct. 27, 1897. Was 
mayor of Boston. 

Issue of Edwin Upton (40-vii.) and Margaret Maud 
(Waterman) Curtis: 

i. Priscilla, b. Nov. 22, 1898; d. Sept., 1899. 
ii. A daughter, b. Oct 9, 1900. 

41-viii. Nelson Curtis, b. Jan. 17, 1864; m. June 
25, 1888, Genevieve Frances Young, b. Dec. 14, 1864. 

ISvSue of Nelson (41-viii.) and Genevieve F. (Young) 
Curtis : 

i. Nelson, b. Dec. 11, 1890. 
ii. Frances, b. Juh^ 22, 1895. 



TENTH GENERATION. 

42-i. Gertrude Louisa Davis, b. Jan. 23, 1865, in 
North Adams, Mass.; m. July 7, 1897, George W. Breck- 
enridge. Went to Hve in Pittsfield, Mass.; was for many 
years a teacher in the public schools of Fitchburg. 

Issue of Gertrude L. (Davis) (42-i.) and George W. 
Breckenridge : 

i. Robert Davis, b. May 27, 1898, in Pittsfield, Mass. 
3 



CHAPTER III. 

Joseph Lowe (15-ii.) and Descendants in Seventh 
AND Eighth Generations. 

SIXTH GENERATION. 

15-ii. Joseph Low, the ancestor of this section, was 
b. in Ipswich, bap. April 24, 1763, and came with his 
parents to Apple Tree Hill. As he reached manhood he 
kept adding to his father's three hundred acres of land 
until, we are told, he became one of the largest land 
owners and taxpayers in the town. Dec. 27, 178^ he m. 
Mary Saw3'er. In the "Old Records of the Town of 
Fitchburg" we find that he held the office of highway 
surveyor. Mrs. John Lowe has in her possession the 
deeds and also the inventory and division of his property, 
v^'hich was valued at $5005, giving each of his five chil- 
dren $1001. His oldest son, Joseph, was appointed 
administrator, and the land v^^as much divided. 

We have in our possession a copy of the deed of con- 
veyance conveying the share of land of David Low^ to 
Mr. Abel F. Adams. The only part of the farm now 
owned in the family is that owned by Mrs. Lydia (Mes- 
singer) (Hawes) Wood, she having m. as his second wife 
Samuel Hawes, who m. for his first wife Mary Low, 
only daughter of Joseph (15-ii.) and Mary (Sawyer) 
Low; and Samuel Hawes Lowe (xv.) of our generation 
has purchased some of that. 

The brothers Stephen and . David purchased farms on 
Pearl Hill and each lived and died there. Daniel owned 
different farms, and d. in Leominster. 

In the "Old Records of the Town of Fitchburg" we 
find these: 

Jofeph Low Ju*" Married to Policy Sawyer both of fitchburg By the 
Revernd John Payfon December ye 27th 1787 



The Jolni Lozve Family Circle. 35 

Luke Saw3'er Joined in Marraige to Polley Smith By the Revernd 
John Payfon December ye 27 1787 both of Fitchburg Recorded May 
28 1788 Phins Hartwell T. Clerk 



Joseph and Mary his wife both d. of consumption. 
Issue of Joseph (15-ii.) and Mary (Sawyer) Low: 

43— i. Joseph Low, b. in Fitchburg Sept. 1, 1791 

ii. Polly or Mary, b. in Fitchburg, March 16, 1794; m. Samuel 
Hawes, son of Robert Hawes, May 6, 1813; d. of con- 
sumption July 17, 1828; Samuel Hawes m. 2d, Lydia Mes. 
singer. May 6, 1830. Mr. Hawes d. Oct. 18, 1873, of old 
age, leaving his wife a snug little property valued at about 
$50,000. She m. again, Aug. 14, 1879, Rev. John Wood, 
who was born in Alstead, N. H., July 24, 1809. His early 
education was in the public schools of Alstead ; he was 
the youngest of thirteen children, and the only boy; was 
graduated from Amherst college 1830, from the Theological 
Institute of Connecticut 1839; licensed at Chicopee Factory 
by Hampden Association Oct. 11, 1838; ordained in Lang- 
don, N. H.. April 8, 1840, after preaching one year; dis- 
missed Jan. 25, 1849; acting pastor at Townshend, Vt., 
from Feb., 1849, where he was installed April 10, 1850; 
continued to preach there until Dec, 1858 ; acting pastor in 
Wolfeborough, N. H., August, 1859, to June, 1864; district 
secretary of American Tract Society, Boston, June, 1864, to 
1868, for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont; district sec- 
retary of American and Foreign Christian Union June, 1868, 
to June, 1869, in the same states, also of American Tract 
Society, N. Y., June, 1869, to June, 1871; acting pastor in 
Boxborough, Mass., May, 1873, to 1875: in Dover, Mass., 
May, 1875, to 1878, and in other places preached as a sup- 
ply whenever an opportunity offered, as long as he was 
able. A most intimate friend said at his funeral, "A man of 
very strong convictions." He m. April 22, 1840, Lucinda 
Maria Dimond of Claremont, N. H., who died July 23, 
1872, leaving four children. He d. July 7, 1899, lacking but 
seventeen days of a life of ninety 3'ears. He was our "Un- 
cle Wood," who has been present in so many of our family 
gatherings, and all remember so well. His children were: 

Jane G., adopted; m. Gleason ; Abbie Lawrence, b. July 

24, 1845; Katherine Kimball, b. April 21, 1849; Annie 
Laurie, b. June 25, 1853. 

44— iii. Daniel, b. in Fitchburg, Aug. 17, 1796. 

45— iv. Stephen, b. in Fitchburg June 27, 1798. 

46— v. David, b. in Fitchburg July 2, 1800. 



36 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

SEVENTH GENERATION. 

43-i. Joseph Low, b. in Fitchburg Sept. 1, 1791; m. 
Clarissa Thurston and remained on the farm. 

Issue of Joseph (43-i.) and Clarissa (Thurston) Lowe: 

47— i. Caroline, b. in Fitchburg May 18, 1814. 
48— ii. Frances, b. Jan. 27, 1817. 

44-iii. Daniel Lowe, b. in Fitchburg Aug. 17, 1796; 
m. Sept., 1819, Betsey Phelps, who was b. Dec. 26, 1798, 
a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hartwell) Phelps; 
he d. in Leominster, Mass., April 3, 1863; she d. of can- 
cer Sept. 4, 1865, in Fitchburg, while living with her son 
Joseph's widow, on Mechanic street. 

Issue of Daniel (44-iii.) and Betsey (Phelps) Lowe: 

49— i. Dennis Flint, b. Oct. 26, 1822. 

50 — ii. Joseph, b. in Fitchburg June 11, 1824. 

iii. Augustus, d. quite j-oung. 

51— iv. WiLLARD Hartwell, b. Aug. 26, 1832. 

V. Daniel A., b. March 17, 1834; d. Jan. 21, 1851. 

45-iV'. Stephen Lowe, b. in Fitchburg June 27, 
1798; m. Susan Kinsman, b. Jan. 3, 1800, dau. of Jere- 
miah and Olive (Messenger) Kinsman; he was a farmer 
and d. of consumption June 10, 1845; his wife d. of the 
same disease Sept. 18, 1849. 

Issue of Stephen (45-iv.) and Susan (Kinsman) Lowe: 

52— i. Henry Joseph, b. July 15, 1822. 
53— ii. Charles, b. July 28, 1824. 

iii. Samuel Hawes, b. Aug 13, 1826; d. April 19, 1852; ni. Har- 
riet Mann. 

"In this town, 19th inst., of consumption, Mr. Samuel H. Lowe, 
aged 26 years. 

"Seldom it is that we are called upon to record the decease of one 
whose departure is more severely felt b^' surviving friends and acquaint- 
ances than will be that of his whose name is placed at the head of this 
notice, although such as have had the privilege of seeing him for months 
past have but anticipated the present issue as painfully apparent. It 
was the good fortune of the writer of this to be acquainted with him 
from early life, and he can bear testimony to the uniform uprightness, 
integrity and truthfulness of his life. Possessed of quiet and unassum- 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 37 

ing manners, yet boldness ever characterized the expression of his honest 
convictions of truth. The manliness of his character was reflected in his 
frankness and open-heartedness, sincerity stamped her impress upon his 
features and spoke in every tone of his voice. He was an affectionate 
and tender husband, a kind brother, and a firm and generous friend, 
ever faithful in all the relations of life. He fell by the hand of that 
dread disease which destroys so many in our climate, especially of the 
young, but we trust and believe that he was not unprepared, and that 
in the passage through the "dark valley" he had the aid of that rod 
and staff which are sure to support and comfort all who put their trust 
in them. Short as his life has been, it was full of good example, and 
the blessing that is promised to the 'pure in heart' will be his reward. 

W. B. T." 
iv. Mary Hawes, b. Oct. 14, 1828; m. Nov. 7, 1849, Austin Se- 

reno Childs, who was b. Sept. 17, 1819; d. May 4, 1892; 

lived in Fitchburg; real estate agent. 
v. Susan Maria, b. Nov. 26, 1830; d. June 22, 1880. 
54— vi. George Preston, b. June 12, 1834. 

vii. Elvira Mahala, b. July 19, 1836; d. April 2, 1883, and was 

buried in West Side, Santa Clara county, California, where 

she had been living for thirteen years. 
55— viii. Lucy Ann, b. May 6, 1838. 
56— ix. Elizabeth Phelps, b. Oct. 9, 1842. 
57— X. Abbie Louise, b. April 6, 1844. 

46-v. David Lowe, b. in Fitchburg July 2, 1800; m. 
Jan. 28, 1822, Louisa Adeline Messenger; d. July ?>, 1866, 
of consumption. Left an orphan at the age of eight 
years, was bound out to one Willard, living on Dean Hill. 
He proved a hard master and often the little fellow went 
hungry and cold. His Aunt Mary (Low) Wheeler took 
him to their home after a time, and their home was his 
until he married. When a young man he learned the ma- 
son's trade and he worked on several of the then promi- 
nent buildings. About tiie year 1828 he bought the farm, 
a part of w^hich is now owned by Seth Lowe; built a 
house and barn and moved his family onto it, and lived 
and died there. It was well said of him: "None knew^ 
him but to love him; none named him but to praise." 
Always hospitable, but never so happy as when, on 
Thanksgiving day, he had as many of his children and 
grandchildren around his bountifully-spread table as could 
gather there; and after grandmother's best china had all 







38 T/ie A f ices tors and Their Descendants 

been carefully put away and the lamps were lighted and 
we were gathered before the old fireplace, he usually 
brought out some choice fruit, saved with much care just 
for the occasion. 

Issue of David (46-v.) and Louisa Adeline (Messenger) 
Lowe: 

58— i. John, b. May 5. 1824. 

ii. A son, b. and d. in 1825. 
59— iii. Calvin Messenger, b. Sept. 3, 1826. 
60— iv. David Sawyer, b. Dec. 23, 1829. 
V. A daughter, b. and d. in 1831. 

vi. Seth Phillips, b. Oct. 22, 1832; d. Jan. 10, 1835. 
61— vii. Seth Lyman, b. July 22, 1837. 

viii. George Lowe, b. March 6, 1838; ni. Nov. 24, 1864. by Rev- 
Alfred Emerson, Mary Adams Russell, in West Fitchburg; 
she was b. in West Fitchburg July 20, 1840; George d. May 
6, 1865, of consumption. He was corporal of Co. F, 25th 
Regt. The regt. was in Gen. Burnside's division at the bat- 
tles of Roanoke, Newberne, N. C, and others; was a 
devoted Christian and member of the C. C. church, 
ix. Daniel, b. June 3, 1840; d. Sept. 23, 1842. 
X. Daniel Clark, b. May 25, 1843; d. Aug. 7, 1845. 
62— xi. Stephen Clark, b. Jan. 5, 1847. 

EIGHTH GENERATION. 

4:7-1. Caroline Lowe, b. in Fitchburg May 18, 
1814; m. George Henry Merriam of Fitchburg, 1836; he 
was b. in Watertown, Mass., March 14, 1812, and d. 
in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 12, 1888; she d. in Fitchburg 
Oct. 30, 1853. 

Issue of Caroline (Lowe) (47-i.) and George Henry 
Merriam : 

63— i. George Francis, b. in Brattleboro, Vt., May 5, 1837. 

ii. Abbie Ann, b. in Upton, Mass., Feb., 1839; m. April 2, 1857, 
George McKinnie in Baltimore, Md.; had one child, and d. 
Oct. 3, 1860. 
iii. Emma Caroline, b. in Fall River, Sept. 19, 1841 ; m. Nov. 29, 
1865, Simon A. Mason of Sutton, Mass.; are now living in 
Fitchburg. 
iv. Mary Eliza, b. in Providence, R. I., July 8, 1844; m. Jerome 
W. Wilder of Leominster; d. Feb. 18, 1864. 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 39 

V. Charles Forier, b. in Townsend, Mass., April 1, 1847; d. 

1848. 
vi. Charles Henry, b. in Quincy, Mass., Dec. 25, 1850; d. Aug. 

15, 1853. 

48-ii. Francis Lowe, b. Jan. 27, 1817; m. Oct. 5, 
1843, in Fitchburg, Sarah Ann Boynton ; he d. June 26, 
1883; she was b. Sept. 20, 1821, and is still living with 
her son in Lexington. They moved to Rindge, N. H., 
afterwards to Jaffrey. An honest, upright farmer. 

Issue of Francis (48-ii.) and Sarah (Boynton) Lowe: 

64 — i. George Francis, b. in Fitchburg July 1, 1844. 

65— ii. Charles Henry, b. in Rindge, N. H., May 11, 1847. 

iii. Mary Caroline, b. in Jaffrey, N. H., Feb. 23, 1851; m. in Jaf- 
frey Feb. 21, 1871, Henry Martin Stearns, who was b. in 
Jaffrey March 14, 1848. He always lived on the farm, and 
d. from accidental shooting in Pepperell, June 2, 1887 ; they 
had no children. She m. again, May 3, 1899, Charles E. 
Stickney of Rindge, N. H., and Hved on the farm; he d. July 
25, 1900, from stoppage. 

66— iv. William Tenney, b. in Jaffrey, N. H., Aug. 21, 1856. 

49-i. Dennis Flint Lowe, b. Oct. 26, 1822 ; m. Nov. 
26, 1846, Sarah Frances Brown, who was born Feb. 9, 
1823. He d. in Leominster Jan. 28, 1866, after a long ill- 
ness of consumption. He was a tailor in Walpole, N. H., 
and Leominster. 

Issue of Dennis Flint (49-i.) and Sarah (Brown) 
Lowe: 

i. Fannie Elizabeth, b. Dec. 21, 1847; m. 1st, Feb. 15, 1870^ 
George W. Smith; 2d, Dec. 6, 1883, Clarence Wentworth, in 
Beloit, Wis., at her Cousin Alfred Spaulding's house. He d. 
at Lake Koshhoum (his father's and mother's summer 
home) July 20, 1896. 

ii. Abbie Lucretia, b. Nov. 22, 1849; d. April 9, 1868, of con- 
sumption. 
67— iii. Martha Roberta, b. July 23, 1854. 

iv. Emerett E., b. Aug. 26, 1858; d. Feb. 20, 1859. 

V. Estella Brown, b. Dec. 18, 1861 ; m. Irving W. Colburn. 

50-ii. Joseph Low, b. in Fitchburg June 11, 1824; 
m. Sarah Elizabeth Gerry, b. 1831; she d. in Arlington, 



40 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Mass., April 25, 1887. He d. Aug. 21, 1863, in Law- 
rence, Kan. The account of his death in "Fireside Leg- 
ends," taken from a letter of Mrs. Sara T. D. Robinson, 
widow of ex-Gov. Charles Robinson, is as follows: 

Mr. Joseph Lowe was a most efficient man. He lost his Hfe the 
morning of the raid by going down into a well to assist in removing 
the dead bodies of Mayor Collamore and his hired man. They had gone 
down into the well to escape from the raiders. Mr. Lowe said to his 
wife, "Now, Sarah, you write home that we are all right and I will 
go over and see what I can do for Mrs. Collamore." He had objected 
to having a rope put around his body, but took it in his hand. To 
their first inquiry from the top of the well he replied, "I am all right." 
To the second inquiry he gave no answer, and as the attempt was 
made to draw him up, the rope slipped out of his hand. He had been 
overcome by the foul air. His remains were brought to Fitchburg and 
funeral services were conducted by the Masons Sept. 4, 1863. 

A tribute in a Lawrence paper said: 

His loss struck deeper and keener into the hearts of our people than 
that of most others. He had passed through the raid with safety when 
death's messengers were flying so thickly and fatally about him, disarm- 
ing the cut-throat by his coolness and suavity, and cheering his neigh- 
bors by his presence. He escaped the bullets of the murderers and died 
striving to save the life of a friend. 

Mr. Lowe was a popular man in this community. He was honest, 
capable and enterprising. Although he was not backward in the expres- 
sion of his opinions, he was popular with all parties. He was courte- 
ous to his opponents, and he was an unfaltering friend. He came here 
in 1856. He was a captain in a mihtary company formed to aid in the 
defense of Lawrence in that year, and on the Sunda3' when the 2400 
came up from Missouri to destroy the town, he and his company held 
possession of the stone fort on Mount Oread. He came here from Fitch- 
burg, Mass., a New England village that has given to Lawrence many 
of its best citizens. 

Mrs. Caroline A. Mason of Fitchburg wrote the fol- 
lowing poem as a memorial : 

Oh, not alone amid the blaze of battle, 
From serried ranks whose bravest bite the sod. 

While all around war's engines hiss and rattle, 
Goes up the hero-soul, exulting, to its God. 

He is the hero howsoe'er surrounded, 

Who counts his own life poor for others' sake; 
Whose generous deed no thought of self has bounded. 

Whose generous purpose doubt nor death itself can shake. 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 41 

And such was he— the true, the gentle-hearted! 

Call him not venturesome nor rashly wild ; 
Earth mourns a brave soul from her face departed, 

And valor owns him kin and claims him for her child. 

Oh, who of us, all fear of death repressing. 

Nay, pausing not to balance death with life, 
Foregoing friends and home, love's sweet caressing, 

The tender ties of blood, the smile of child and wife — 

Who of us all — albeit we are human 

Even as he — would do a deed so brave ? 
Oh, his was love passing the love of woman, 

Stronger than death itself and mightier than the grave! 

Bays for the hero on the red field lying; 

Paeans and plaudits and a nation's tears; 
But love, warm, human love for him who, dying. 

Hands legacy like this down through the eternal years! 

Issue of Joseph (50-ii.) and Sarah (Gerry) Lowe: 
68— i. Frederic Messenger, b. in Lawrence, Kan., March 22, 1859. 

51-iv. WiLLARD Hartwell, b. Aug. 26, 1832; m. 
April 24, 1854, CaroHne Augusta Hall of Boston; b. May 
30, 1829, and d. Feb. 22, 1886, of bronchial pneumo- 
nia. He d. Jan. 10, 1886, of inflammation of stomach 
and bowels. He was an expressman in Fitchburg for 
many years ; a man of sterling integrity and honor, 
respected by all who knew him, and of whom it has been 
said, "He had no enemies." 

Issue of Willard H. (Sl-iv.) and Caroline A. (Hall) 
Lowe: 

69— i. Carrie Susan, b. Feb. 13, 1855. 

70— ii. Adelaide F., b. July 6, 1857. 

71— iii. Willard A., b. Dec. 1, 1859. 

72— iv. Nellie Maria, b. Dec. 30, 1861. 

V. Joseph D., b. Aug. 26, 1864; educated in the public schools of 
Fitchburg and m. Oct., 1885, to May E. Bliss of Paw- 
tucket, R. I. He is a successful business man in Boston ; 
resides in Brookline. 

73— vi May Josephine, b. May 12, 1869. 

53-i. Henry Joseph Lowe, b. July 15, 1829; m. in 
1845 Frances C. Thurston, dau. of CA^rus and Caroline 



42 TJic A)icestors and Their Descendants 

(Boutelle) Thurston; he d. Aug. 10, 1875; she d. Jan., 
1878. 

Issue of Henry Joseph (52-i.) and Frances C. (Thurs- 
ton) Lowe: 

74— i. Helen Frances, b. June 25, 1847. 

75 — ii. Louise Caroline, b. Oct. 1, 1849. 

iii. Jenny Maria, b. Jan., 1858. 

iv. Charles Henry, b. 1859; d. 1862. 

v. Annie Elizabeth, b. June, 1861; d. July, 1861. 

76— vi. Frank Preston, b. Feb. 24, 1864. 

vii. Florence, b. 1867; d. 1875. 

viii. Clara E., b. and d. in 1882. 

53-ii. Charles Lowe, b. July 28, 1824; m. Dec. 22, 
1846, Louisa Jane Sylvester; b. in Fitchburg July 18, 
1824. He d. Jan. 9, 1887; a contractor and builder, and 
lived all his life in Fitchburg. 

Issue of Charles (53-ii.) and Louisa Jane (Sylvester) 
Lowe: 
77— i. Mary Ellen, b. Oct. 9, 1849. 

54-\i. George Preston Lowe, b. June 12, 1834; 

m. April 25, 1864, Jane Cecelia Boyer of , England, 

who was b. Jan. 8, 1837. George Preston early showed 
a taste for a seafaring life, and at the age of sixteen left 
home and friends, to follow his chosen pursuit. He was 
honest, faithful and conscientious, and became captain 
when quite young. In later life it was his proudest boast 
that never an oath had passed his lips and that he had 
never tasted intoxicating liquor. 

Issue of George Preston (54-vi.) and Jane C. (Boyer) 
Lowe : 

78—1. Georgiana Maud May, b. April 26, 1867. 

ii. George Herbert, b. Aug. 6, 1869; is third officer in U. S. ship 

Sagamore, 
iii. Elvira Annie, b. June 7, 1871. 

iv. Marjorie Jane, b. April 13, 1873; d. Sept. 20, 1873. 
v. Charles Henry, b. Jan. 1, 1875. 

55-viii. Lucy Ann Lowe, b. May 6, 1838; m. 
Henry Marshall Putnam Aug. 16, 1867. He was b. Dec. 
29, 1841. 



of the John Lotve Family Circle. 43 

Issue of Lt3cy Ann (Lowe) (55-viii.) and Henry Mar- 
shall Putnam: 

i. Clayton Lowe, b. April 5, 1868; d. March 18, 1897. 
ii. Henry Marshall, b. Dec. 10, 1869. 
iii. Bertha Ernestine, b. April 13, 1872. 

56-ix. Elizabeth Phelps Lowe, b. Oct. 9, 1842; 
m. Oct. 6, 1868, George Alfred Hitchcock, who was b. in 
Ashby Jan. 15, 1844; express messenger for the New 
York and Boston Despatch Express Co. 

Issue of Elizabeth Phelps (Lowe) (56-ix.) and George 
Alfred Hitchcock: 

79— i. George Preston, b. June 30, 1870. 

ii. Annie Louise, b. Oct. 15, 1873; graduated from Fitchburg 
high school 1892 ; has since been employed as clerk in Har- 
rison Bailey's law office. 

57-x. Abbie Louise Lowe, b. April 6, 1844; m. Wil- 
liam Steele March 18, 1868, in San Francisco; he was b, 
in Haysville, O., Oct. 5, 1827; d. Feb. 2, 1881; lived as 
a farmer in West Side, Santa Clara county, Cal. Abbie 
L. was adopted by Mr, William Wyman in 1849 in New 
Hampshire, was in Mt. Holyoke seminary in 1863; went 
to California in fall of 1864, taught school in Solano 
county three years. 

Issue of Abbie Louise ^ (Lowe) (57-x.) and William 
Steele : 

80— i. Annie L., b. April 3, 1869. 
ii. Winnifred, b. June 11, 1871. 
iii. Olive Elvira, b. Nov. 28, 1873. Is attending a kindergarten 

school in San Francisco ; had taught six years in the 

Hawaiian Islands, 
iv. George W., b. Feb. 22, 1878. 



CHAPTER IV. 

John Lowe (58-i.) Grandson of Joseph Lowe (15-ii.) 
AND His Descendants — The John Lowe Family 
Circle. 

We learn from the records that our ancestors in the 
different generations were good citizens, of more or less 
prominence. The first to come to Fitchburg was Joseph 
Lowe, grandfather, and Joseph Low, Jr., father of David, 
who was b. in 1800. David Lowe was a very industri- 
ous man, by trade a mason, and while working at his 
trade he helped to build the American House, now stand- 
ing on the corner of Main and Blossom streets, the Duck 
mill and covered bridge in South Fitchburg, and other 
buildings of less prominence. While he was living on Me- 
chanic street, where Mr. E. P. Downe lately lived, his son 
John Lowe was born. May 5, 1824. Afterwards he moved 
over to the farm on Pearl Hill, where Seth L. Lowe now 
lives. Here he died in 1866, leaving his wife, Louisa A. 
(Messenger), and four sons. She lived to the ripe old age 
of eightj^-five j^ears, leaving us in 1886. Her four sons, 
John, Calvin M,, Seth L. and Stephen C, all then married 
and enjo3ang good health, survived her, and also her sis- 
ter, Mrs. John Wood, who almost to her ninetieth birth- 
day attended our family gatherings. Calvin M. has since 
died. 

John Lowe, the father of the present large family, 
spent his early life mostly on his father's farm. In 1846 
he married Sarah Mead of Boxboro and lived in his 
father's house. Here he commenced the butchering and 
provision business, which has since wonderfully increased, 
from the purchasing of a few head of cattle of the far- 
mers, then -by the carload shipped alive from the West, 
until now several carloads of dressed beef are used in a 




J^^^-i^n^i^i^ c^EtH^^-^t^^ 



TJie JoJin Lozve Family Circle. 45 

week. Four of his children were born here, after which 
he moved to Rindge, N. H., in 1851, to increase his busi- 
ness by sending the products which he collected among 
the farmers to Boston. He lived there four years, and 
while there two sons were born to him. He returned to 
Fitchburg in 1855 and since has resided here. Six more 
children were born to him and his wife, Sarah Mead 
Lowe, and in 1865 she was called hence, leaving her hus- 
band and twelve children, also her three brothers and four 
sisters, who are now living. 

April 3, 1866, John Lowe inarried Mary Adams (Rus- 
sell) Lowe, who is now living and has five children. Thus 
the immediate family consists of father, mother and seven- 
teen children, all living. Of the children, fourteen are mar- 
ried, three single, making thirt3^-one brothers and sisters. 
The thirteen families have, all told, thirt3^-five children. 
The oldest one of these is married and has four chil- 
dren, making, with their great-great-great-aunt, Mrs. John 
Wood, five generations. 

Aunt Wood, first generation, 1 

2 

31 

35 

4 

73 



Father and mother, second generation, 
Children, third generation. 
Grandchildren, fourth generation. 
Great-grandchildren, fifth generation. 



A total of seventy-three souls living. This number 
constitutes the family of John Lowe. In January, 1898, 
the following figures were obtained : 

Father, mother, children, grandchildren, whole number, 65 

Total height, 329 ft. 6l^ in. 

Total weight, . . . . . . . 8O591/2 lbs. 

Total age, 1685 yrs. 9 mos. 

They are all in good form and enjoy good health, not 
one uses tobacco in any form, or liquor as a beverage. 
All the members of the John Lowe family attend the Con- 
gregational church and nearly all are members. 

In the family are four farmers, three paper manufac- 



46 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

turers, two cotton manufacturers, two wholesale provi- 
sion dealers, one street railroad magnate, one bank clerk, 
one inventor, one minister, one machinist. They transact 
nearly $3,000,000 of business per year, employ 1500 
hands, and in all the industries in which they are con- 
nected over $500,000 are paid in wages. 

Nearly all the states in the Union and Canada have 
either been the homes or been visited by different members 
of the family, and hundreds of thousands of miles have 
been traveled with much profit and pleasure and no seri- 
ous accidents. One trip around Cape Horn on a sailing 
yessel, twelve trips across the Atlantic, beside a trip to 
Florida and return by sail, have been made by different 
members of the family. Several have held public office. 
All visually vote the Republican ticket. 



EIGHTH GENERATION. 

58-i. John Lowe, b. May 5, 1824; m. by Rev. 
James D. Farnsworth in Boxboro, Mass., Aug. 11, 1846, 
Sarah Mead, who was b. Aug. 22, 1825, and d. Dec. 14, 
1865; m. 2d, April 3, 1866, by Rev. Alfred Emerson, in 
West Fitchburg, Mrs. Mary A, (Russell) Lowe, widow of 
his brother, George (viii.) ; she was 1). July 20, 1840. 
John was b. on Mechanic street, Fitchburg; his early 
school days were spent in a school house near by, but at 
the age of eight years his father bought the farm now 
owned by Seth L. Lowe, his brother, on Pearl Hill, and 
built a brick house, not now standing. His school days 
were then mostly confined to winter terms, in a small red 
school house now made into a dwelling and standing at 
the corner of Fisher and Pearl Hill roads. One winter 
term of six weeks he attended a private school taught by 
a Mr. Fox. At the age of eighteen he attempted to learn 
scythe making of John Farwell and Abel Simonds, but 
the work indoors was not congenial, and after three or 
four months he commenced work for Clark Simonds, farm- 
ing, and attending school winters. After three years he 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 47 

worked four or five years for Isaiah Putnam, when he 
started in the meat business, using for a slaughtering 
house a small building near his father's house. Hoping 
to extend his business, in the spring of 1851 he moved 
his family onto a farm in Rindge, N. H. Four years of 
hardships among those rocky hills was labor enough to 
cool his ardor for business in that location, although he 
made many life-long friends. He returned to Fitchburg, 
went into the wholesale meat and provision business, 
which he followed with^its ups and downs until the year 
1875, when he sold out to his oldest sons and went into 
a market on Day street for a short time. He followed 
market gardening for four years on what he called 
"Round Top" on Pearl Hill, now owned by William 
Proctor, it being the southern half of his father's farm. 
Since then has worked all he has been able for his boys, 
helping not only by labor with hands, but mind as well. 
He served the city as councilman from Jan. 1, 1876, to 
Jan. 1, 1877. Early in life he joined the C. C. church. 
Loved and honored not only by his children, but by all 
who know him. 

Issue of John (58-i.) and Sarah (Mead) (iii.) Lowe: 

81— i. Ellen Maria, b. April 30, 1847. 

82— ii. Edna Mary, b. May 3, 1848. 

83— iii. Waldo Hawes, b. May 8, 1849. 

84— iv. Ira Adelbert, b. Oct 13, 1850. 

85 — V. Albert Nathaniel, b. March 12, 1852. 

86— vi. Arthur Houghton, b. Aug. 20, 1853. 

87 — vii. Orin Messenger, b. April 18, 1855. 

88— viii. Lewis Mead, b. March 11, 1857. 

89— ix. Herbert G., b. March 27, 1859. 

90— X. Ida Louisa, b. April 26, 1861. 

91— xi. Frank E., b. Jan. 15, 1864. 

92— xii. George Russell, b. July 11, 1865. 

Issue of John (58-i.) and Mary (Russell) (Lowe) 
Lowe, all born in Fitchburg: 

93— xiii. David, b. June 23, 1867. 
94 — xiv. Harriet Lydia, b. April 15, 1870. 
95— XV. Samuel Hawes, b. Oct. 22, 1873. 
96— xvi. John Adams, b. Aug. 27, 1881. 
97— xvii. Marian Abbie, b. Nov. 30, 1883. 



48 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

NINTH GENERATION. 

81-i. Ellen Maria Lowe, born in grandfather's house 
on Pearl Hill in Fitchburg, April 30, 1847; m. July 16, 
1868, Lyman Wheeler Merriam. When she reached the 
age of four our father moved his family to Rindge, N. H., 
where school da^'^s began, at the age of six. in a small 
red school house which stood at the foot of a long hill. 
When eight years old we returned to Fitchburg to live on 
a small farm at the junction of what is no^v Lincoln 
street and Pearl Hill road. Attended school at Day street 
and there was graduated at the age of fourteen and 
entered the high school at the head of a class of one hun- 
dred. Mathematics and grammar were favorite studies. 
Attended high school alternate years until the age of sev- 
enteen, then took private instruction in bookkeeping. At 
the age of eighteen she began teaching school in Lunen- 
burg with fifteen scholars, then a short fall term in the 
Caswell district, Fitchburg; but before the term closed 
typhoid fever had entered the home circle and her services 
were much needed. Then began her nursing in earnest; 
before this a little had been done for a night or a day, 
but now it was day and night for weeks. Father, mother 
and five brothers — Waldo, Ira, Albert, Arthur and Frank — 
were sick. It was like a hospital from October first until 
Januar^^ first, but through the kindness of God all recov- 
ered except our mother, whose death left Ellen and Edna 
in charge of ten younger children. The baby, George Rus- 
sell Lowe, being only five months old, father employed an 
old woman (Mrs. Wyeth Blodgett) to care for him and 
his children. The spring of 1866 found Ellen quite worn 
out, but her father's marriage in April released her from 
so much care that she went to her Aunt Maria Patch's 
in Harvard for a while. The first Sabbath in July, 1866, 
she became a member of the C. C. church. The same 
month. Grandfather Low^e, who was in consumption, 
v^ished her to remain with them, which she did, but at 
the end of two weeks he, too, was taken from earth. 
Very soon followed a call to the bedside of Clarence 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 49 

Twitchell at West Acton. He was thrown from a w^agon, 
injuring his head, and she spent most of the fall with 
Aunt Anna Mead Twitchell, caring for Clarence. After 
spending the winter at home she began teaching again on 
Pearl Hill, teaching until the spring of 1868. Juh^ 16, 
1868, she married Lyman Wheeler Merriam, and from 
that time her life has been hlled wnth the duties, trials 
and pleasures of bringing up a family of nine children — 
five girls and four boys. 

Lyman Wheeler Merriam, her husband, was born at 
148 Pearl street, Fitchburg, March 31, 1844, and was 
educated mainly at Day street and the high school. At 
the age of nineteen he joined the C. C. church. In his 
bo\'hood days he showed unmistakable signs of being a 
natural mechanical inventor. This natural talent has 
been so strong that with all the opposition, failure to 
become rich, and discouragements, he has acquired the 
reputation of being a first-class professional inventor, and 
has up to date (fall of 1900) obtained fifteen patents, 
also has invented many practical machines, some of which 
are (juite complicated. He has one patent now pending, 
which is the most valuable of any applied for. He is 
engaged at the present time making milk bottle caps, 
using machines invented by him, in company with George 
O. Allen, under the firm name of the Merriam Mfg. Co. 

Issue of Ellen M. (Lowe) (81-i.) and Lj^man Wheeler 
Merriam : 

102— i. Sarah Abbie, b. in Fitchburg Aug. 9, 1869. 

ii. Frederic Lowe, b. in Fitchburg Aug. 2, 1870; d. of water on 
the brain, in Worcester, April 23, 1872. 

iii. Louisa Adeline, b. in Holden Aug. 21, 1872; d. of typhoid 
fever Sept. 22, 1890. in Fitchburg. Joined the Rollstone 
church in 1887. 

iv. Alice Edna, b. in Fitchl)urg Nov. 25, 1874; belonged to the 
class of 1895, Fitchburg high school. Went to Washing- 
ton, D. C, for the winter, Dec, 1897; returned home June 
30, 1898, and went into Mr. Arthur H. Hall's family in 
North Leominster. Joined the Rollstone church March, 1890. 

V. John Lowe, b. in Jaffrey, N. H, July 9, 1876; d April 13, 
1898; entered the class of 1895, Fitchburg high school. 
Joined the Rollstone church 1890. 



50 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

vi. Edith Augusta, b. in Jaffrev, N. H., March 5, 1878; entered 
the class of 1896, Fitchburg high school. Joined the Roll- 
stone church March, 1893. 

vii. Lizzie Maria, b. in Winchendon Sept. 27, 1880; graduated 
from the Fitchburg high school 1898. Joined the Rollstone 
church March, 1893. 

viii. Clifton Harris, b. in Winchendon Dec. 30, 1883. Joined the 
Rollstone church March 5, 1898; entered the Fitchburg 
high school in class of 1902. 

ix. Henry Mead, b. in Fitchburg Sept. 11, 1885; d. Aug. 5, 
1887, of cholera infantum. 

83-ii. Edna Mary, born May 3, 1848; joined the C. 
C. church Nov., 1865, was a Sabbath school teacher in the 
C. C. and Rollstone churches. Graduated from the Fitch- 
burg high school in the class of 1867, which was a class 
of four girls, the second class to receive diplomas, Judge 
Franklin G. Fessenden of Greenfield being the onh^ one of 
the class of 1866. Taught school in Fitchburg, West Ac- 
ton, Rochester, N. H., and Key West, Fla.; m. by Rev. 
G. R. W. Scott, D. D., to James Edward Putnam, Feb. 
22, 1883, in her father's home, 88 Highland ave., in the 
presence of about seventy relatives and friends. 

James E. Putnam was born in Fitchburg July 22, 
1845, son of James P. and Susan Abigail (24-vi.) (Upton) 
Putnam. He crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1864, 
leaving home June 20, and came home across the conti- 
nent in Oct., 1866. He was overseer at the county jail 
in Fitchburg for one j'car from Sept., 1868, to Sept., 1869, 
and turnkey until Oct., 1877; was alderman from Ward 
4 in 1899. He lives at the old Putnam homestead and 
has one of the finest farms in the county. 

Issue of Edna M. (Lowe) (82-ii.) and James E. Put- 
nam : 

i. Helen Edna, b. in Fitchburg Aug. 8, 1885 ; entered Fitchburg 
high school, class of 1902. 

83-iii. Waldo Hawes Lowe was born on Pearl Hill, 
in his grandfather's house, on the eighth of May, 1849. 
When he was two years old his father moved to Rindge, 
N. H. The first characteristic remembered is when upon 



of the Jo/in Lowe Family Circle. 51 

being given the choice of going to bed without his supper 
or being whipped as punishment for being late home from 
school one night he chose to go to bed. This happened 
when he was from four to five years old. About the same 
tmae a neighbor, Dexter Jewell, who kept a lot of sheep 
and lambs, told him if he would catch a lamb and take 
It home he might have it, and for a few times the sturdy 
little fellow marched off with a rope, determined to bring 
home that lamb, but he always came home minus the 
lamb. When six years old his father moved back to 
Fitchburg and settled on a place of twenty-five acres, 
about a mile from town, on the Pearl Hill road Waldo 
entered the school at Day street, which he passed through 
creditably, and entered the high school in 1862, aged four- 
teen. His school life was rather uneventful, perhaps a lit- 
tle inclined to be aggressive, but he kept out of serious 
trouble. During most of the time he attended the high 
school his father did not hire a man and the work had 
to be done by the four older bovs, and this made long 
days a necessity. Three years in the high school and four 
months m the Bryant & Stratton business colleo-e pre 
pared him quite well to begin the battle for his own sup- 
port. During the siege of typhoid fever in our family in 
the fall months of 1865 he was the second victim among 
the children. Owing to his robust health he pulled through 
without any special disturbance and soon recovered his 
usual health. He worked at home for his father until 
March, 1870, when he went to Brighton, and in partner- 
ship with A. and O. W. Mead & Co. sold beef in Boston. 
This venture proving unprofitable, starting at midnight, 
vSunday, July 3, with his horse and buggy, he drove to 
Fitchburg and took breakfast with his father. November 
ot the same year he took the market under the Universal- 
ist church, which he carried on with good success, selling 
out June, 1872, and in company with Ira bought out his 
father's business under the firm name of W. H. and I. A. 
Lowe & Co. The first of May, 1866, he joined the c' C. 
church. Rev. Alfred Emerson, pastor. Feb. 13, 1872, he 
m. Mary Louisa Whitcomb at the residence of her par- 



52 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

ents on Grove street. Her great uncle, Rev. John Wood, 
performed the ceremony in the presence of the nearest 
relatives of both parties, his sister Edna and brother 
Arthur and her sister Ella and cousin John Fairbanks 
standing with them. August, 1879, he went to work for 
G. F. Swift & Co., Chicago, 111. July, 1880, he went to 
Milwaukee, Wis., selling beef for Swift. September, 1880, 
he moved his family from Keene, N. H., to Milwaukee. 
When he came for them he left Chicago Wednesday night 
and Monday morning he and his family were in Milwau- 
kee—a quick trip. His goods were to follow, but before 
they arrived, Mr. Swift had promoted him to outside fore- 
man and recalled him to Chicago, where he went, his 
family following in a few days. He worked here days, 
nights and Sundays for nearly four years. He passed 
through the big strike of '80, working every day, also the 
switchnjen's strike in '82, when Swift's house was the 
only one to work all through the strike, and he hardly 
left the slaughter house day or night for three weeks. 
They boarded for a time at a private house, but as soon 
as their household goods came from Keene, via Milwau- 
kee, they rented the house at the northwest corner of 
Emerald avenue and 45th street, where they continued to 
live until June, 1883, when after a trip to New England 
they moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, to which place Ira 
had preceded him the year before. Here, with assistance 
from others, he started and for a time successfully man- 
aged the Wyoming Meat Co. The failure of the cattle 
industry in 1886 carried down nearly every industry in 
that section, making poor men out of those who had 
been milHonaires. May, 1887, he moved to Omaha, Neb., 
and worked for Hammond & Co. for two years, when he 
went into the retail meat business with Adam Snyder for 
a partner. Matters not being agreeable, he went to work 
for Cudahy & Co., but not being a Catholic he was 
obliged to quit. June, 1891, he came East to look for a 
business opening at Beverly, Mass., but finally decided at 
the age of forty-two, when most men have already made 
their fortune and have a stated income, to take up an en- 



of the John Loive Family Circle. 53 

tirely new business and learn to make paper, there ])ein^r 
an opening for him; he was after a short time made 
superintendent of the Falulah Paper Co. at Fitehburg 
where he has remained. ' 

Mary Louise Whitcomb, the wife of Waldo H. Lowe 
was born March 27, 1851, in Marlboro, N. H., and is the 
daughter of Albert S. and Martha Abigail (Willis) Whit- 
comb. At the age of five years her schooling began in 
Keene, N. H., and continued, as her father's business 
called him from place to place, at Waltham, Brattleboro 
and Fitchburg, from Fitchburg to Wolfeboro academy, 
and then to Abbott academy, Andover, Mass., from which 
she hoped to be graduated, but an accident to her father 
made it necessary for her to leave school before doing so 
Joined the C. C. church in 1869. At the age of eighteen 
she worked for a short time before her marriage in the 
studio of Mr. J. C. Moulton. 

Issue of Waldo H. (83-iii.) and Mary L. (Whitcomb) 
Lov^e : 

i. Bessie Edna, b. Nov. 25, 1872; d. Aug. 3, 1873. 

ii. Bertie, b. May 7, 1875: d. June 23, 1875. 

iii. Mattie Louisa, b. July 31, 1876; joined the St. Mary's Ave. 
church, Omaha, in 1888; graduated from Fitchburg high 
school 1895. Clerk for Falulah Paper Co. 

iv. Florence Josephine, b. April 22, 1878, in Fitchburg; united 
with St. Mary's Ave. church, Omaha, in 1890; graduated 
from Fitchburg high school 1896, from the Fitchburg state 
normal school, two years' course, 1898, four years' course, 
1900; appointed to teach school in Montclair, N. J., com- 
mencing in Sept., 1900. 

v. Gertrude Whitcomb, b. May 16, 1880, in Keene, N. H.; 
united with the C. C. church 1894; graduated from the 
Fitchburg high school 1898; policy clerk and stenographer 
for the Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Co. 

vi. Albert Waldo, b. June 11, 1882, in Chicago; d. Feb. 25, 
1885, in Chicago, brought East and buried in Forest Hill 

vii. LORENA May, b. Oct 17, 1884, in Cheyenne, Wyoming; united 
with the C. C. church 1897; Fitchburg high school, class of 
1902. 

viii. Willis Mead, b. Aug. 10, 1896, in vSouth Fitchburg; d. Aug 
31, 1897. 



54 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

84-iv^ Ira Adelbert, born Oct 13, 1850; joined the 
C. C. church May, 1866. Was a Sunday' school teacher 
in Rollstone church for a few ^-^ears. Married by Rev. 
Charles Darius Swett to Annie Maria Stone June 19, 
1884, in her father's house, Charlestown, Mass., in the 
presence of friends numbering two hundred or more. 
Annie M. Stone is the daughter of Jasper and Mary Pat- 
ten (Swett) Stone and was born Feb. 20, 1857, in 
Charlestown ; is a member of the Second Advent church 
and always more thoughtful for others than for herself. 
Ira received his education in the public schools and one 
year in the Bryant & Stratton commercial college in Bos- 
ton. He was for a time with his brothers in the whole- 
sale provision business in Fitchburg, then went to Chey- 
enne, W3'oming, and was connected with the Snow and 
Lowe Cattle companies and Wyoming Meat Co. as presi- 
dent. About 1887 went to Chicago, and in 1888 returned 
to Massachusetts and was in business in Boston about 
two years, then went to Greenfield, where he has been 
very successful in sheep culture. 

Issue of Ira Adelbert (84-iv.) and Annie Maria (Stone) 
Lowe: 

i. Beatrice, b. Nov. 29, 1888, in Charlestown, Mass. 



85-v. Albert Nathaniel, born in Rindge, N. H., 
March 12, 1852. Joined the C. C. church May, 1866; 
removed his relationship to the Rollstone church in 1897, 
w^here he has been on the church committee for two years. 
He was married by Rev. S. J. Stewart to Emma Rebecca 
Palmer, Oct. 28, 1879, in her father's house on Main 
street. Friends were present to the number of thirty, and 
gifts were valuable. Emma was born Dec. 17, 1854, and 
is the daughter of Dr. Thomas and Charlotte (Fiske) 
Palmer, in whose grove at Notown we have held our 
Fourth of July picnics for many years ; graduated from 
the Fitchburg high school in the class of 1873 and joined 
the C. C. church in 1874. Albert received a common 
school education, w^ith six months in the Brvant & Strat- 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 56 

ton commercial college. Was in the wholesale meat and 
provision business with his brothers until the year 1886, 
and then commenced the manufacture of paper in South 
Fitchburg, under the name of Falulah Paper Co. The 
business was commenced in a small building in a small 
wa^^, but b3^ patience and perseverance has been built up 
to its present capacity of twenty-five tons per day. 
Served the city as councilman from Jan. 1, 1879, to Jan. 
1, 1880. Has been a director of Safety Fund National 
Bank since Feb., 1897. 

Issue of Albert N. (85-v.) and Emma R. (Palmer) 
Low^e, all born in Fitchburg: 

i. Erving Fiske, b. May 8, 1881; united with tlie Rollstone 
church March, 1897; graduated from the Fitchburg high 
school 1899; entered Harvard Medical school preparatory 
to entering Dental school, class of 1902. 

ii. Ernest Palmer, b. May 8, 1881 ; united with Rollstone church 
March, 1897; graduated from Fitchburg high school 1899; 
Amherst college one year, and entered the mill of the Falu- 
lah Paper Co. in order to learn the business. 

iii. Joseph Albert, 1). Jan. 20, 1883; united with Rollstone church 
March, 1897, Rev. W. O. Conrad, pastor; graduated from 
Fitchburg high school 1900; enters Amherst in class of 
1904. 

iv. Guy Russell, b. April 17, 1888; united with Rollstone church 
March, 1897; Fitchburg high school 1902. 

V. Ralph Putnam, b. Feb. 4, 1887; Fitchburg high school 1903. 

vi. Charlotte Emma, b. Jan. 10, 1891. 

86-vi. Arthur Houghton, b. in Rindge, N. H., Aug. 
20, 1853; joined the C. C. church May, 1866; married 
by Rev. S. S. Munger to Annie Elizabeth Parkhill Dec. 11, 
1878, in her father's home in North Adams, in the pres- 
ence of relatives and friends, some from Fitchburg having 
been prevented from reaching there by a washout at 
Greenfield ; gifts were many and valuable. Annie E. Park- 
hill was born Feb. 15, 1857, in Belvidere, 111.; a daughter 
of John and Margaret (Cleghorn) Parkhill; joined the 
church in her sixteenth year, in May. Graduated from 
Westfield normal school Januar}^ 1877. Arthur's educa- 
tion was of the public schools ; he was in business with 



56 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

his brothers for a few^ years, and in the year 1879 l^egaii 
the manufacture of ginghams, under the name of Parkhill 
Manufacturing Co.; is now its manager and treasurer, 
has interest in local, county, and state business affairs; was 
president of New England Cotton Manufacturers' Associa- 
tion. Public service: Alderman of Fitchburg 1888; mayor 
1893, and during his term there was the greatest achieve- 
ment in extension of municipal works — erection of three 
school buildings and two fire stations, elimination of 
grade crossings, and projection of other public works ; 
was influential in securing a normal school for this city. 
President of Board of Trade two years. Trustee of Cush- 
ing academy. Politics : Pronounced republican ; member 
of Home Market club and of Massachusetts Republican 
club ; delegate to Republican national convention at Phila- 
delphia, 1900. 

Issue of Arthur H. (86-vi.) and Annie E. (Parkhill) 
Lowe, born in Fitchburg: 

i. Russell Bryant, b. Feb. 4, 1880; united with the C. C. 

church May, 1892: graduated from Fitchburg high school 

1898 ; entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class 

of 1902. 
ii. Annie Margaret, b. Nov. 21, 1885; Fitchburg high school 

1902; joined the C. C. church May, 1900, Rev. A. F. Dun- 

nels, pastor, 
iii. Rachel Parkhill, b. May 12, 1889. 

87-vii. Orin Messenger, born April 18, 1855; mar- 
ried by Rev. G. R. W. Scott to Florence Allisia Webber, 
Oct. 30, 1879, in her father's house in Lunenburg, Mass., 
friends and relatives being present. Gifts many and valu- 
able. Florence A. Webber was born May 19, 1859, the 
daughter of George H. and Sarah Jane (Smith) Webber. 
Verv' musical. Orin received a public school education, 
and at the age of eighteen went to California in the clip- 
per ship Mary L. Stone, Capt. Charles H. Phinney, via 
Cape Horn. After being there one j^ear he returned home 
and worked for his brothers until 1880, when he went to 
Chicago and entered the employ of G. F. Swift, where he 
worked until November, when, with a broken arm, he 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. o7 

returned home and beeame assoeiated with the company 
of Lowe Bros. & Co. As the other brothers have gradu- 
ally left the business he has risen till he is now at the 
head of the business. He has been many times selected 
as a delegate to city and state conventions and served 
the city as councilman during the year 1889, and the 
year 1900 as alderman. He belongs to the I. O. O. F. 

Issue of Orin M. (87-vii.) and Florence A. (Webber) 
Lowe, born in Fitchburg : 

i. Grace Albro, b. Sept. 18, 1880; graduated from Fitchburg 
high school 1899; entered Mt. Holyoke seminary, class of 
1903. 

ii. Irene May, b. May 4, 1884; Fitchburg high school 1902. 

iii. Porter Webber, b. Feb. 25, 1887. 

iv. Rodney Messenger, b. Jan. 16, 1890. 

88-viii. Lewis Mead, born March 11, 1857; mar- 
ried by Rev. C. M. Sanders to Lurilla Whipple April 22, 
1888, in her sister's home (her parents being dead) in 
Cheyenne, Wyoming. Gifts were many. Lurilla Whipple, 
born May 3, 1865, in Marion, Iowa, is the daughter of 
Daniel F. and Irene A. (Boynton) Whipple; joined the 
Baptist church of Cheyenne 1883. Lulu received her edu- 
cation in the public schools of Marion and Nevada, low^a, 
and Cheyenne, Wyoming. After leaving school she became 
her father's bookkeeper till his death in April, 1884. Her 
mother having died in January of the same year, she 
acted as copyist and typewriter in the office of Law^yer 
Mann while the estate was being settled, and also taught 
school for a time. It was during her teaching in a little 
log school house, thirty miles from the nearest railroad, 
that Lewns showed his interest and zeal in the public 
schools by frequently riding sixty miles horseback in one 
day. Lewis was educated in the public schools of Fitch- 
burg. Worked for his brothers until about twenty-one, 
when he went to Whitaker, Mich. Worked for Webster 
Child s and then returned to Fitchburg to resume work 
for his brothers. After a time he went to Chicago and 
worked for Swift & Co., ril^bing beef, and foreman of a 



58 The Ancestors and Their Descendajits 

"cooler-gang." Learned all he cared to of that part of 
the business and returned to Fitchliurg. There was an 
opening for some of the boys at Cheyenne, W^^oming, and 
his older brothers thought he would do well to take it, 
and consequently he found himself there on or about 
Aug. 2, 1884. Was foreman for the W3'oming Meat Co. 
about three years, during which time he took delightful 
trips to Denver, Leadville, Colorado Springs, etc., in hope 
of bettering his health, but did not regain it till after a 
trip to Massachusetts and a time spent in the Massachu- 
setts general hospital. As soon as he was able to travel 
so far, he returned to Cheyenne, and was united in mar- 
riage with Lurilla Whipple April 22, 1886. They traveled 
almost constantl3' for a month, visiting the relatives in 
"the East" and Iowa, and including the chief points of 
interest in Boston, New^ York, Philadelphia, Washington 
and Chicago. It was a most delightful wedding trip and 
was concluded at Cheyenne the twentieth of Ma}', where 
they immediately commenced housekeeping in the house 
formerh' occupied by "Lulu's" parents. Lillian Mabel, 
their daughter, was born in thiit house Ma^' 8, 1887. 
Soon after, Lewis started the first meat cart ever run in 
Cheyenne and did well at it till the decline of the cattle 
industry made it necessary for many people to seek resi- 
dence elsewhere. Concluding he had got all the money 
out of it there was to be had, he took his wife and little 
eleven-months-old daughter back to Fitchburg, where he 
worked with his brothers till Jan. 1, 1892, when he sold 
his interest in the business and bought the farm in Lunen- 
burg, where he at present resides. 

Issue of Lewis M. (88-viii.) and Lurilla (Whipple) 
Lowe: 

i. Lillian Whipple, 1). in Cheyenne, Wyoming, May 8, 1887; 
Fitchburg high school 1904; united with the Highland Bap- 
tist church, Fitchburg, Feb., 1898; entered Fitchburg high 
school in class of 1904. 

ii. Lowell Mead, b. in Lunenburg Nov. 30, 1894. 



of the John Loive Family Circle. 59 

89-ix. Herbert G., born March 27, 1859; Joined 
the C. C. church 1880; married by Rev. R. V. Davies to 
Mary Adelaide Vaughn May 24, 1888, in her father's 
house in Delavan, 111., in the presence of friends and rela- 
tives. Gifts valuable. Mary Vaughn, born April 1, 1860, 
in Delavan, 111.; is the daughter of William E. and Susan 
(Brendorff) Vaughn. Joined the C. C. church 1888. Grad- 
uated from Conservatory of Music. Herbert received a 
public school education, with three months of the com- 
mercial college. Learned the trade of dyer in the Johnson 
Manufacturing Co. of North Adams, and in 1880 com- 
menced vv^orking for the Parkhill Manufacturing Co. in 
Fitchburg, where he remained until 1889, when he became 
one of the Falulah Paper Co. He served the city as coun- 
cilman from Jan. 1, 1890, to Jan. 1, 1891. 

Issue of Herbert G. (89-ix.) and Mary E. (Vaughn) 
Lowe, born in South Fitchburg: 

i. Donald Vaughn, b. Feb. 13, 1891. 
ii. Malcolm Branson, b. May 21, 1892. 

90-x. Ida Louisa, born April 26, 1861 ; married Dec. 
14, 1880, by Rev. S. L. Blake, assisted by Rev. John 
Wood, to Ezra Jackson Riggs. Joined the C. C. church in 
1875, Rev. H. M. Tyler, pastor. Attended the public 
schools, entering the high school in 1876 ; entered the 
state normal school at Framingham in Februar^^ 1878. 
Taught school in Rindge, N. H., from April till July, 1880. 

Ezra J. Riggs was born Dec. 11, 1846, in Boston, Mass. 
Attended the public schools in that city, graduating from 
the Eliot school in July, 1861. EnHsted Oct. 1, 1861, as 
a volunteer soldier for the civil war in Co. E, 28th Mas- 
sachusetts Infantry. Re-enlisted in the field Jan. 1, 1864, 
and was finally mustered out as first sergeant of his com- 
pany June 30, 1865. Again enHsted April 12, 1867, in 
Co. F, 42d U. S. Infantry, and was discharged as quar- 
termaster sergeant April 9, 1869 ; was wounded in action 
at Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864. Entered Andover 
theological seminary in September, 1876, to prepare for 
the work of the Congregational ministry. Graduated in 



60 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

June, 1879, and immediate^ began work with the church 
at Rindge, N. H. After a four years' pastorate with this 
church he returned to Andover seminary for a fourth year 
of study. At the end of this period was called to the 
pastorate at East Jaffrey, N. H. After ministering to the 
people of this place for three years, labored for a time in 
our western country, having charge of churches in Mani- 
tou Springs, Colorado. In 1890 returned to the East and 
continued the work of the ministry at Provincetown, 
Mass. 

Issue of Ida L. (Lowe) (90-x.) and Rev. Ezra J. Riggs: 

i. Nelson Francis, b. Sept. 23, 1881, in Rindge, N. H.; d. Sept. 

18, 1882, in Rindge, N. H.; taken to Fitchburg for burial, 
ii. Christine Louisa, b. July 6, 1889, in Fitchburg. 

91-xi. Frank E., born in Fitchburg Jan. 15, 1864- ; 
attended public schools until spring of 1879, which he 
left to enter the emplo}' of I. A. Lowe & Co.; there he 
remained until August, 1880, going to Chicago for Swift 
& Co., returning to Fitchburg July, 1881, and to the em- 
ploy of I. A. Lowe & Co. as bookkeeper and salesman. 
March, 1884, he went to Cheyenne, in office and at pack- 
ing house of Wyoming Meat Co.; later, on the ranch of 
Lowe and Snow Cattle companies. He again returned to 
Fitchburg in 1885, and in April, 1886, with Orin M. and 
Arthur H., formed partnership of Lowe Bros. & Co., 
wholesale produce and provision commission merchants 
and agents for Swift & Co. When the branch house was 
opened by the company at Greenfield, in April, 1887, he 
removed to that place and took charge, conducting the 
same successfully until 1891; then becoming a partner in 
the Falulah Paper Co., traveling for them until 1893 and 
giving up on account of health. He again assumed direc- 
tion of the Greenfield house of Lowe Bros. & Co. until 
the same was sold to Swift & Co. in 1896, whereupon he 
identified himself with street railway interests, being one 
of the incorporators and the first president of the Green- 
field & Turners Falls Street Railway Co., and was made 
general manager of the same in 1898. Besides interests 



of the John Lozve Family Circle. 61 

in this company he was an officer and incorporator of 
several street railway's in Massachusetts, Vermont, New 
York state and Pennsylvania. Married Sept. 26, 1900, to 
Mrs. Martha (Stone) Towle, a sister of Annie M. (Stone), 
wife of Ira A. (81-iv.) Lowe. 

9'^-xii. George Russell, born July 11,1865. Joined 
the First Cont^regational church in Gardner. Married by 
Rev. Lawrence Phelps to Mary Elizabeth Marshall Jan. 
16, 1889, in her father's house in Gardner; only a family 
wedding, but gifts were valuable. Mary E. Marshall was 
born July 7, 1862, in Mendon, Vt., and is the daughter 
of George W. and Sarah Elizabeth (Brick) Marshall. 
Joined the First Congregational church, Gardner, in 1879. 
Educated in Gardner public schools. George R. attended 
the public schools and worked for Lowe Bros. & Co. 
in Fitchburg. In 1887 went to Gardner and is at the 
head of Swift's establishment there. He was elected direct- 
or and vice-president of the Gardner bank in 1895 and is 
held in high esteem in public affairs. He has been a dele- 
gate to many state conventions, and his fellow-citizens 
have frequently desired to confer some office upon him, his 
name having been particularly mentioned for state sena- 
tor, but he has preferred to decline such honors and to 
remain in private life. 

Issue of George R. (92-xii.) and Mary E. (Marshall) 
Lowe, born in Gardner, Mass.: 

i. Bertha, b. Jan. 3, 1890; d. Oct. 23, 1890. 
ii. Kenneth Marshall, b. July 30, 1899. 

93-xiii. David Lowe, the tenth son and thirteenth 
child, is next in line. Father named him David, in honor 
of his father, for among all the fifteen grandsons none 
had ever been given the name of the grandfather, David. 
Our history also shows that the same name was borne 
by two other generations in our direct line of ancestry 
and was followed by an honorable record. So the name, 
though plain and short, is a family inheritance. His birth 
occurred June 23, 1867, at the old homestead on Pearl 



62 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Hill road, and of his infancy and earliest childhood there 
is not much of special importance to record. After four 
years of home education and discipline, he commenced 
school life at East street, with Frank and George, with 
Miss Sarah Marshall for a teacher, and was duly pro- 
moted to Day street, under the care of whose efficient 
instructors, B. F. Brown being principal at the tiirie, he 
successfulh^ passed into the Fitchburg high school, from 
which he graduated Juh' v3, 1885, . Ray Greene Ruling 
principal. The graduating exercises of the class of '85 
took place in the evening at city hall, the evening exer- 
cises being an innovation, and David delivered an oration 
on "England and Russia in Central Asia," illustrated by 
a map of his own make-up. After graduation, his plans 
for a month's vacation before permanently settling to 
work as cashier for I. A. Lowe & Co., 5 South street, 
were frustrated by the severe accident to brother Samuel, 
who fell from the third story window at our home, 88 
Highland avenue, a distance of twenty-two feet to the 
ground, wdiere he was found in a generally dislocated con- 
dition. Doctors Colony and Rice pulled him into shape, 
and for five weeks he required constant care, mother tak- 
ing the da3'S and David the nights, the doctor coming 
ever)' few hours for the first few days, until the immedi- 
ate danger was over. We are all gratified that Samuel 
has grown to manhood in spite of such a severe accident. 
September found David hard at work for Albert, the finan- 
cial head of I. A. Lowe & Co., and he remained here until 
the twenty-first day of December, 1885, on which date he 
entered the employ of the Parkhill Manufacturing Co., 
Arthur having offered him an opportunity to go in and 
make himself useful. David entered with this determina- 
tion and commenced his labors with Samuel B. Bartow, 
Jr., in the office and brother Herbert, overseer of dyeing. 
His first work was the receiving and invoicing of goods 
and checking the \'arn ; then figuring out the orders and 
shipping the goods, all the time gaining knowledge and 
experience. He has grown up with the mill and has seen 
the growth and development of the present " Mill A," the 



of the Jo Jin Lozve Family Circle. 63 

acquisition of " Mill B," which was formerly the Fitch- 
burg Woolen mill, and purchased of that company, and 
the building and enlargement of "Mill C," originally the 
Cleghorn mills. From one step to another he has ad- 
vanced, and now is assistant superintendent of " Mills A 
and B," Mr. Parkhill being general superintendent. David's 
business training commenced earl}' in his school days, 
under the tuition of " F. E. Lowe & Co., Hen Dealers," 
as their cards read, (Frank and George) and this educa- 
tion and discipline ^vas a good vStarter. His first experi- 
ence in "working out" was in serving as cash boy during 
a summer vacation for the late L. J. Brown, in his dry 
goods store, working six da^^s and live evenings per week. 
He w^as a proud and happy but tired youngster when, 
the first Saturday night, he stepped up to the big desk, 
and standing on tiptoe reached up to receive three big sil- 
ver dollars for the first week's work. In 1880 he entered 
the emplo\' of C. D. Cobb & Co., grocers, later A. L. Wil- 
liams & Co., as clerk, working evenings, Saturday after- 
noons and vacations for two years. Their store was then 
in the old Citizens' House block, where Dickinson's new 
block now stands. Then he entered the South street store 
of I. A. Lowe & Co., and during his high school course 
worked there afternoons, and studied evenings. From the 
money thus earned he paid his way for ever\'thing except 
his board, which father always furnished his children dur- 
ing their school days. In May, 1885, David united with 
the Rollstone church. Rev. G. R. W. Scott pastor, where 
he always has had a share in its different departments of 
work. Was assistant superintendent of SundaA' school, 
under Mr. C. H. Doten. Was elected church treasurer in 
January, 1898, which office he now holds, and is serving 
the third year as collector. He is a life member of the 
American Seamen's Friend Society, through Grandmother 
Lowe, and a life member of the American Missionary 
Association, through the Rollstone church. In public 
institutions he is a director of the Fitchburg Cooperative 
bank, a member of the New England Cotton Manufac- 
turers' Association, the Fitchburg Historical Society, and 



64 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

the Youn^ Men's Christian Association. He is a Republi- 
can, and is now serving on the Repubhcan city commit- 
tee. His first vote was cast in 1888 for Benjamin Harri- 
son. The best and most important day in his career was 
June 1, 1892, when Grace Isabelle Doten became his wife. 
They were married in the Rollstone church by Rev. C. S. 
Brooks. On this occasion her parents provided a very 
generous outfit and wedding. The church service, wit- 
nessed by many relatives and friends, was followed by a 
reception at their house, 56 Pleasant street, at which 
nearly ever3' memlier of the Lowe famih^ was present, 
with many relatives and friends of the bride. 

Grace Isabelle, younger daughter of Charles Henry 
Doten and Frances Helen (Mackenzie) Doten, was born in 
Boston Dec. 4, 1866, and is of the fifth generation of the 
lineal descendants of Edward Doten and his wife, Faith 
Clarke, who came over from England in the Mayflower 
and settled at Plymouth, where the old Doten house and 
wharf are still standing, and are the oldest of the many 
historical objects of interest. Her education ])egan at 
four years of age at Miss Mitchell's private school for 
several terms and afterwards at a ])rivate kindergarten, 
probably among the first to be started in Boston. Pul3lic 
school life began at about seven years in the Groton street 
primary school and afterwards the old Franklin grammar 
and Everett schools. From the latter she was removed 
by Mr. Doten, having changed his business and their 
home to Fitchburg in March, 1881. Grace entered the 
High street grammar school, where she finished the gram- 
mar course, entering the Fitchburg high school as a mem- 
ber of the class of 1886, under the principalship of Ray 
Greene Huling, who severed his relation with the school 
at the close of the school 3^ear in 1886. One of the pleas- 
ant features of the graduation exercises was the presenta- 
tion to Mr. Huhng of a Ijeautiful gold watch, a testimo- 
nial of pupils, teachers and friends. The six years follow- 
ing graduation were employed in learning the many 
branches of housekeeping and in assisting in various ways 
in the different branches of church work in the Rollstone 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 66 

church, where she became a member in May, 188.3. On 
June 23, 1892, they celebrated David's twenty-fifth birth- 
day by starting housekeeping in the old Justin Stearns 
place, 19 Mechanic street. This land was purchased in 
Father Lowe's boyhood of Grandfather David Lowe, and 
formed a portion of the old Lowe estate. April 7, 1893, 
was a day of rejoicing, when little Eleanor, their first 
child, was born. The little life was all too short, for she 
was taken at about twenty months, on Dec. 17, 1894, to 
the home above. On Feb. 1, 1897, they welcomed little 
Frances Helen into their home, her Grandmother Doten's 
namesake, and a comfort to all, coming soon after the 
death of Mrs. Doten, which occurred Nov. 11, 1896. 
After living at the Stearns place rather more than five 
years, David and his family removed to 45 Prospect 
street, where they now reside. 

Issue of David (93-xiii.) and Grace I. (Doten) Lowe, 
born in Fitchburg: 

i. Eleanor, b. April 7, 1893; d. Dec. 17, 1894-. 
ii. Frances Helen, b. Feb. 1, 1897. 



94-xiv. Harriet Lydia, born April 15, 1870; joined 
the Rollstone church March, 1885; married by Rev. C. S. 
Brooks, assisted by Rev. John Wood, to William Hamil- 
ton Wright, Sunday, July 12, 1891, in the Rollstone 
church, in the presence of man^- friends; a reception was 
given in the church parlor. There were a great many 
gifts. Graduated from Fitchburg high school, class of 
1889. Taught school in Fitchburg. 

WilHam H. Wright was born Oct. 17, 1865, in Clin- 
ton. Attended the public schools of Fitchburg; joined 
the Rollstone church March, 1885. He is a machinist by 
trade, and resides in Hyde Park. 

Issue of Harriet L. (Lowe) (94-xiv.) and William H. 
Wright, b. in Fitchburg: 

i. WiLMA Harriet, b. July 24, 1892. 
ii. Eunice Cummings, b. Aug. 1, 1894. 
5 



66 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

95-xv. Samuel Hawes, born Oct. 22, 1873. Sam 
thinks because he comes so late in the line of the Lowe 
family that he has not had a chance to make much "his- 
tory" of any interest, but we think that a short history 
that is clean and strong on the side of right living is just 
so much added strength to the whole circle. The removal 
of his father from the happy home on Pearl hill was a 
marked event. Sept. 10, 1873, he settled in the new place 
on Pratt street, now 88 Highland avenue, which has 
become very dear to him as the "other home," and here, 
Oct. 22, his eleventh son was born, and a few days after 
received his name, Samuel Hawes, at the request of Aunt 
Lj'dia, in honor of her husband, whose death occurred 
Oct. 18 of the same year. It was a name that had 
alwaA's stood for integrity and honor and was gladly 
adopted. For nearly eight years Sammy had the distinc- 
tion of being the bab3^ of the family, when he was super- 
seded by the youngest son, John Adams Lowe. Sam was 
always a happy boy and lively as the proverbial cricket, 
but met with a serious accident in his twelfth summer, 
which for a year or two retarded his growth and kept 
him back in school so that he did not graduate from the 
grammar school until his fifteenth year, when he received 
his diploma, certif^'ing that he had successfully passed his 
exams and met all the recjuirements of entrance to the 
Fitchburg high school. Here he spent three years, taking 
the English course, preferring mathematics and science to 
languages. Near the close of his third year Mr. Chapin 
asked him if he would like to go into a local bank. 
"No," he replied, "I am going to photographing as soon 
as school closes." He was advised to look up the chance 
and did so with equal promptness, and reported next 
day, "It was the Safety Fund. They have got a boy." 
He thought that settled it and was happy in carrying 
out his own ideas, but a summons from the president a 
few days later to come up to the bank led to an engage- 
ment which is still in force, covering nine years of steady 
service. He entered as messenger boy and was soon given 
a clerk's work, and proving equal to the opportunities is 



of the John Lozve Family Circle. 67 

at present paying teller, occupying the place so long held 
by J. G. Tyler. 

We copy this item from the Sentinel April, 1897: 

SAFETY FUND BANK CHANGES. 

The directors of the Safety Fund National bank met Monday after- 
noon and chose Samuel H. Lowe to be paying teller and messenger, and 
John C. Dexter of Orange to be receiving teller and bookkeeper. Mr. 
Lowe is son of John Lowe and has been in the bank six or seven years, 
and has been a faithful servant of that institution in all capacities he 
has filled. He began at the lowest round of the ladder and has won his 
deserved promotion by hard work. He is highly esteemed not only by 
the bank people, but by all who know him as well. 

Samuel united with the Rollstone church under the 
pastorate of Rev. Charles S. Brooks. Has been secretary 
of the Sunday school for two or three years, and treas- 
urer of the church and parish for four years. He is a 
Mason, too, "in good and regular standing," belongs to 
the Merchants' Association and several other societies, 
and is also an auditor in the Fidelity Cooperative bank. 
In politics he is Republican, and always and everywhere 
a man of unceasing activity. He is unmarried. 

96-xvi. John Adams, born Aug. 27, 1881 ; joined the 
Rollstone church Mar. 4, 1894; graduated in college course 
from Fitchburg high school in class of 1899. Entered 
Mr. C. H. Doten's millinery store as clerk for one year; 
entered Williams college September, 1900. 

97-xvii. Marian Abbie, born Nov. 30, 1883; joined 
the Rollstone church July, 1898, Rev. W. O. Conrad pas- 
tor. A pupil in the high school, class of 1901. 



TENTH GENERATION. 

102-i. Sarah Abbie Merriam, born in Fitchburg 
Aug. 9, 1869; joined the Rollstone church in 1887; mar- 
ried by Rev. Clement E. Holmes to James Lewis Harring- 



68 The Ancestors and Their Descendants. 

ton of Lunenburg Sept. 11, 1890, in her father's house, 
148 Pearl street, Fitchburg. 

J. L. Harrington was born Oct. 17, 1855; is the son 
of George and Martha (Lewis) Harrington; is a farmer 
and milkman. 

Issue of Sarah Abbie (Merriam) (102-i.) and James 
Lewis Harrington, born in Lunenburg: 

i. Lewis Lowe, born Jan. 14, 1892. 

ii. Ruth Louise, born May 23, 1893. 

iii. Carl Rogers, born March 2, 1896. 

iv. Harold Leon, bom June 13, 1898. 



CHAPTER V. 

Descendants of Joseph Lowe (15-ii.) Concluded. 

EIGHTH GENERATION. 

59-iii. Calvin Messenger Lowe, born Sept. 3, 1826; 
married Dec. 31, 1853, Mar>^ Elizabeth Childs, born in 
Henniker, N. H., April 24, 1824- ; died in Michigan of con- 
sumption April 6, 1898. EarW in life he joined the C. C. 
church. For a time he was in business in Fitchburg, but 
sold out and went to a small settlement called Paint Creek, 
now Whitaker, in Michigan, arriving there Sept. 30, 1853. 
He remained there; all his children were born, died and 
buried there. He was a very sincere Christian and labored 
for the upbuilding of their small church. 

Issue of Calvin (59-iii.) and Mary (Childs) Lowe, 
born in Paint Creek, now Whitaker, Mich. : 

i. Edward Goodell, b. March 30, 1854; d. Jan. 6, 1877, of 
consumption. 
98— ii. Austin Childs, b. Feb. 12, 1856. 

iii. Abbie Louise, b. April 25, 1858; d. May 19, 1875, of con- 
sumption. 

iv. Lucy Rosella, b. June 5, 1861; d. May 4, 1865, of burns re- 
ceived while plaj'ing with fire. 

V. Mary Levina, b. Oct. 22, 1862; d. Feb. 3, 1863. 

vi. Lucy Edith, b. April 13, 1867; m. June 24, 1891, to William 
Knapp; d. April 6, 1894. 

vii. James Webster, b. Feb. 22, 1869; d. Aug. 11, 1888. 
99— viii. Carlos William, b. March 6, 1871. 

ix. Mary Elizabeth, b. Jan. 22, 1873; d. Aug. 18, 1873. 

60-iv. David Sawyer Lowe, born Dec. 23, 1829; 
married April 22, 1856, Amelia Frances Vose, who was 
bom Aug. 17, 1834; he died Oct. 13, 1860, of consump- 
tion, in Paint Creek, Mich., but is buried in Laurel Hill, 
Fitchburg. 



70 TJie Aticestors and Their Desceiidants 

Issue of David (60-iv.) and Amelia (Vose) Lowe: 

i. William Vose, b. Sept. 8, 1857, in Augusta, Mich.; d. Sept. 
20, 1858, in Augusta, Mich. 
100— ii. William Vose, b. Sept. 25, 1859, in Augusta, Mich. 

iii., iv. Celia .Adelaide and Delia Eliza, twins, b. April 25, 1861, 
in Fitchburg. Celia d. Aug. 3, 1861 ; Delia d. Sept. 19, 
1861. 

61-vii. Seth Lyman, born July 22, 1837; married 
Feb. 28, 1857, Susan Rebecca Vose, born June 15, 1836, 
sister of Amelia F., who married David S. (57-iv.),' and 
daughter of ex-Mayor William H. Vose. Seth received his 
early education in the district school on Pearl Hill and a 
little while in Rindge, N. H. He said he did not gradu- 
ate, because his education has been progressing ever since 
and isn't finished yet. He was with his brother John a 
good deal of the four years he was in Rindge, N. H., and 
w^ent to Whitaker, Mich., when twenty-one years old. 
After about two ^^ears returned East and married. Tak- 
ing his bride back to Michigan, he bought a farm. After 
a year or two the buildings were burned, and finding it 
rather hard to live in a shanty he returned to Fitchburg 
and settled upon the old homestead in September, 1864, 
where he has lived quietl}- with children and grandchil- 
dren. Has been a member of the C. C. church for many 
years. 

Issue of Seth L. (61-vii.) and Susan R. (Vose) Lowe: 

i. Frederic Henry, b. Jan. 11, 1860, in Whitaker, Mich. Joined 
the C. C. church when young; m. by Rev. C. R. Gale to 
Florence Lovell. who was 1). Aug. 26. 1856, in North 
Adams. 

ii. Susan Ameli.\, b. June 14, 1862, in Whitaker, Mich.; m. 
Monday afternoon, Sept. 17, 1900, by Rev. A. F. Dunnels, 
to Percival R. Bowers. 
101— iii. Eugene Francis, b. Jul}- 11, 186-i, in Fitchburg. 

iv. Clara Luella, b. in Fitchburg, Oct. 7, 1867. 

V. Annie Louisa, b. Nov. 29. 1871 ; d. Sept. 20. 1874-. 

63-xi. Stephen Clark Lowe, born Jan. 5, 1847; 
married, first, Dec. 1, 1879, Sarah Jane Bacheller, who 
died Sept. 15, 1880; married, second, Sept. 5, 1882, Ella 



of the JoJin Lowe Family Circle. 71 

E. Taft; he learned the machinist's trade; in his twenty- 
second year (1869) he apprenticed himself to the Rollstone 
Machine Works. At the expiration of the three years he 
engaged himself to the Brown Engine Co., with whom he 
was connected as an employee for three years, till 1872. 
Went to Minnesota and remained there until 1879. Went 
to Elgin, 111., in the watch factory and remained until 
1892. Has been in Dos Palos, Merced county, California, 
since that date. Before leaving Fitchburg he joined the 
C. C. church, Rev. Alfred Emerson, pastor, and since that 
time has always been ready for any work ; Sunday school 
teacher, superintendent, chorister, organist, and while in 
Elgin was appointed to the office of deacon. Since going 
to California has become identified with the M. E. church 
and held at diiferent times all the offices in that church. 

Issue of Stephen Clark (62-xi.) and Ella E. (Taft) 
Lowe, born in Elgin, 111.: 

i. Edna Louisa, b. June 18, 1883; graduates from Elgin high 
school in class of 1901, also from the college of music, 1901. 

ii. Henry Gordon, b. Aug , 1885. Joined the Methodist church in 
Dos Palos Jan., 1900. When very young he went to Dos 
Palos, Merced countjs California, with his parents, and has 
remained with them and become a great comfort to them in 
their privations of frontier life. 

NINTH GENERATION. 

63-i. George Francis Merriam, bom in Brattleboro, 
Vt., May 5, 1837; married Jan. 21, 1860, Emma Maria 
Wheeler, born in Ashby, Mass. He died Jan. 27, 1892, in 
Springfield, Mass. Had eight children. 

Issue of George Francis (63-i.) and Emma Maria 
(Wheeler) Merriam: 

i. Louis Francis, b. Nov. 29, 1860. 

ii., iii. Adelaide Augusta and Annie Frances, b. April 29, 1862. 
iv. George Francis, b. Aug. 1, 1863. 
V. Charles Sumner, b. Dec. 16, 1867. 

vi., vii. Frederic Mason and Emma Gertrude, b. Feb. 24, 1870. 
viii. William Cullen Bryant, b. Feb. 24, 1872. 

WilHam C. Bryant and George Francis are living; the others died in 
infancy. 



72 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

64-i. George Francis Lowe, born in Fitchburg, July 
1, 1844; married April 14, 1869, in Fitchburg, Harriet 
Elizabeth Stearns, who was born in Hollis, N. H., Jan. 7, 
1844. He went to war in the year 1861 ; enlisted in Au- 
gust and served until the end of the war, and was mus- 
tered out of service with honorable discharge as corporal 
in August, 1865; never enjoyed very good health after- 
w^ards. Went into milk business in Woburn, Mass., in 
1868 ; remained there about four years, sold out and went 
to Arlington ; in provision business for nearly three years, 
and gave up on account of his health and went to Quincy, 
Fla., and farmed there until his death, June 18, 1882. 
His wife and daughter Leila came home to Jaffrey Dec. 1, 
1882. His wife afterwards became a trained nurse, which 
work she has followed about seventeen years, most of the 
time in the state of Connecticut. 

Issue of George Francis (64-i.) and Harriet E. (Stearns) 
Lowe: 

i. Frances Duane, b. June 23, 1871, in Woburn, Mass., d. Sept. 

14, 1871. 
ii. Leila Adams, b. July 2, 1875, in Arlington; m. Oct. 11, 1899, 

in Rindge, Arthur Willis Hubbard, b. in Rochester, Vt., JuW 

20, 1868. His business is electrician, 
iii. Henry Eugene, b. Nov. 26, 1877, in Quincy, Fla.; d. Sept. 22, 1879. 

65-ii. Charles Henry Lowe, born in Rindge, N. H., 
May 11, 1847; married in Lexington April 7, 1869, Mary 
Adelaide Goodwin, born in Bedford Jan. 21, 1851. He 
has been in the provision business most of the time in 
Lexington, Mass. 

Issue of Charles Henry (65-ii.) and Mar\^ A. (Good- 
win ) Lowe : 

i. Willie Ellsworth, b. in Lexington, June 14, 1871 ; d. of 
scarlet fever April 6, 1876. 

ii. Charles Herbert, b. July 29, 1876, in Lexington; attended 
high school three years; Comer's commercial college in Bos- 
ton about eight months; has since worked in provision 
business in Lexington. 

iii. Eva Gertrude, b. Oct. 7, 1879, in Lexington; d. April 16, 
1899; was obliged to leave school in the winter of 1895 
with Bright's disease, of which she died. 



of tJie JoJin Lowe Family Circle. 73 

66-iv. William Tenney Lowe, born in Jaffrey, N. H., 
Aug. 21, 1856; married Aug. 4, 1883, Lulu Estella Jewett, 
born in Rindge, Sept. 14, 1866. She died while they were 
living on a farm in Jamaica, Vt., April 13, 1891 ; he mar- 
ried, second, Dec. 25, 1895, Freda Emoline Wolf, born in 
Germany March 3, 1877. They now live in Lexington, 
Mass. 

Issue of William Tenney (66-iv.) and Lulu E. (Jewett) 
Lowe: 

i. Frances Irving, b. Feb. 14, 1884; now resides in Lexington. 

ii. Mary Estella, b. Oct. 22, 1885; resides in Lexington. 

iii. Henry Everett, b. Oct. 29, 1887, in Jamaica, Vt.; resides in 

Lexington, 
iv. Charles Samuel, b. April 16, 1890, in Jamaica; has lived 

with his mother's sister in Winchendon since her death. 

Issue of William T. (66-iv.) and Freda Emoline (Wolf) 
Lowe: 

V. Florence Henrietta, b. Oct. 9, 1897, in Lexington, 
vi. Herman Boynton, b. Oct. 29, 1898, in Lexington. 

67 -iii. Martha Roberta Lowe, born July 23, 1854; 
married Dec. 13, 1877, Charles E. Wallace, who was con- 
nected with the Fitchburg post-office very early in life 
and is now postmaster. Mr. Wallace was born in Clinton, 
Mass., Sept. 3, 1847. 

Issue of Martha R. (Lowe) (67-iii.) and Charles E. 
Wallace, born in Fitchburg: 

i. Harold L., b. Oct. 23, 1880; attended the public schools of 
Fitchburg, and entered Phillips academy, Andover, in 1899. 

ii. Ruth L., b. Oct. 10, 1885; a pupfl in the Fitchburg high 
school, 1902. 

68-i. Frederic Messinger Lowe, born in Lawrence, 
Kan., March 22, 1859; married Dec. 16, 1887, Amelia 
Frances Robbins, born in Arlington July 23, 1864. He 
graduated from Yale college in class of 1882, from Har- 
vard Medical school, class of 1885 ; practiced in Boston, 
and now in West Newton, his present home. 



74 TJie Alices tors and Their Descendants 

Issue of Dr. Frederic M. and Amelia F. (Robbins) 
Lowe : 

i. Gwendolen Robbins, 1j. July 1, 1900, in Arlington. 

(>9-i. Caroline Susan Lowe, born Feb. 13, 1855; 
married Aug. 20, 1878, Benjamin Greene BagW of Wal- 
tham, Mass., who was born Feb. 16, 1845; resides in 
Fitchburg. 

Issue of Caroline S. (Lowe) (69-i.) and Benjamin G. 
Bagle}' : 

i. GoLDiE Lowe, b. Ma3' 24, 1880; educated in public schools in 
Fitchburg; graduated from Fitchburg high school June 28, 1899. 

70-ii. Adelaide F. Lowe, born Juh- 6, 1857; mar- 
ried Jan. 11, 1881, William A. Hayward of Augusta, Me., 
born Sept. 6, 1853; commercial traveler; resided in Mil- 
waukee, Wis. 

Issue of Adelaide F. (Lowe) (70-ii.) and William A. 
Hayward : 

i. Ralph Lowe, b. Dec. 26, 1881. 

ii. Lillian Caroline, b. March 19, 1887. 

iii. George Lincoln, b. Feb. 12, 1889. 

iv. Frances Nellie, b. March 5, 1890. 

V. William Clark, b. June 29, 1892. 

vi. Joseph Lowe, b. Jan. 8, 1897. 

71-iii. WiLLARD A. Lowe, born Dec. 1, 1859; me- 
chanic in Parkhill gingham mill; married Jan. 21, 1884, 
Ethel A. Hills, born in Richmond, N. H., Feb. 21, 1860, 
daughter of Nathaniel Hills, born in Brookline, Vt., March 
5, 1819; died March, 1891; his wife was Almira S. 
Blood, born in Putney, Vt., May 14, 1830; died Oct. 17, 
1867. Willard is at present superintendent of cemetery 
department. 

Issue of Willard A. (71-iii.) and Ethel A. (Hills) Lowe: 

i. Hazel Ethel, b. Dec. 1, 1885; entered the Fitchburg high 

school Sept., 1900. 
ii., iii. Jennie Almira and Bertha May, b. Jan. 3, 1887. 
iv. Doris Josephine, b. March 8, 1893. 



of the John Loxve Family Circle. 75 

72-iv. Nellie Maria Lowe, born Dec. 30, 1861; 
married Feb. 21, 1883, Roy O. Littlehale of Tyngsboro, 
Mass., born Jan. 18, 1858; came to Fitchburg when 
about eighteen years of age. Worked for several of the 
leading grocers, went into the grocery lousiness for himself 
in the old Joslin store on Day street in 1896; also mile- 
age business. Has served in the city government two 
years as councilman. 

Issue of Nellie M. (Lowe) (72-iv.) and Roy O. Little- 
hale, born in Fitchburg: 

Robert Lowe, b. April 26, 1884. 
i. Leon Willard, b. Sept. 3, 1888. 
ii. Howard Milton, b. Sept. 20, 1893; d. Jan. 30, 1895. 



73-vi. May Josephine Lowe, born May 12, 1869; 
entered the Fitchburg high school 1886 for three months, 
then went to Milwaukee; returned in 1889, married Feb. 
2, 1892, Harry Aitchison, who was born in Sing Sing, 
N. Y., May 14, 1853. His business is carriage trimming. 

Issue of May J. (Lowe) (73-vi.) and Harry Aitchison: 

i. Willard Lowe, b. Sept. 5, 1895. 
ii. Lester Cobleigh, b. May 12, 1900. 



74-i. Helen Frances Lowe, born June 25, 1847; 
married Henry F. Nason of New York in 1873. 

Issue of Helen Frances (Lowe) (74-i.) and Henry F. 
Nason : 

i. Gladys Frances, b. Nov., 1875. 



75-ii. Louise Caroline Lowe, bom Oct. 1, 1849; 
married Chauncey Mason of New York in June, 1872 ; she 
died in 1885 ; he died in 1889. 

Issue of Louise C. (Lowe) (75-ii.) and Chauncey 
Mason : 

i. Helen Frances, b. April 15, 1873. 
ii. Florence Louise, b. Sept., 1875. 



7C TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

76-vi. Frank Preston Lowe, born Feb. 24, 1864; 
married July 8, 1891, Rosa Nell Wright, who was born 
April 8, 1870; he was educated in the Fitchburg public 
schools; worked in the Fitchburg Machine Works for 
about two years, then went to Waltham, where he is 
assistant job master of one of the jobs in the train mak- 
ing department of the American Watch Company. 

Issue of Frank Preston (76-vi.) and Rosa Nell (Wright) 
Lowe : 

i. Carroll Henry, b. Aug. 17, 1893. 

77-i. Mary Ellen Lowe, born Oct. 9, 1849; mar- 
ried Nov. 26, 1872, Albert E. Whitney, who was born in 
Ashburnham; she died Sept. 30, 1887. A. E. Whitney is 
a jeweler. 

Issue of Mary Ellen (Lowe) (77-i.) and Albert E. 
Whitne3^ : 

i. KoY LowK, b. Sept. 1, 1875; is in the insurance business in 
Boston. 

78-1. Georgl\na Maud May Lowe, born April 26, 
1867; married J. Kennedy Sept. 16, 1889. 

Issue of Georgiana M. M. (Lowe) (78-i.) and J. Ken- 
nedy, born in England : 

i. James Frederic, b. June 19, 1890; d. July 2, 1890 
ii. Eliza Maud Mary, b. Nov. 29, 1891. 
iii. George Edward, b. Nov. 20, 1896. 

71)-i. George Preston Hitchcock, born June 30, 
1870; married April 3, 1894, Carrie B. Walker, born in 
Philadelphia Feb. 6, 1868. Educated in public schools, 
graduated from Fitchburg high school in class of 1888, 
from Amherst college in 1892; began to teach in Ansonia, 
Conn., in the fall of 1892; in the Fitchburg high school 
in 1893 ; became principal in November, 1896. His wife 
was educated in the lower grades in Boston ; graduated 
from F. H. S. 1888, and Normal Art school in Boston, 
class of 1892. 



of the John Lozve Fafnily Circle. 11 

Issue of George Preston Hitchcock (79-i.) and Carrie 
B. (Walker) Hitchcock, born in Fitchburg: 

i. Hilda, b. June 10, 1899. 

80-i. Annie L. Steele, born April 3, 1869; married 
Warren E. Dermody 1892. / 

Issue of Annie M. (Steele) (80-i.) and Warren E. Der- 
mody, born in Cupertino, California : 

i. James E., b. March 18, 1896. 
ii. George W., b. Oct. 16, 1898. 

98-ii. Austin Childs Lowe, liorn Feb. 12, 1856; 
married March 21, 1879, Mary A. Davis, born May 9, 
1856; died May 15, 1883, of consumption. 

Issue of Austin (98-ii.) and Mary A. (Davis) Lowe, 
b. in Michigan : 

i. Mary, b. May 9, 1880. 

ii. George Austin, b. Oct. 12, 1882. 

iii. Edward I., b. Nov. 19, 1884. 

99-viii. Carlos William Lowe, born March 6, 1871 ; 
married May 27, 1894, Christie Lawson, born June 10, 
1873. 

Issue of Carlos W. (99-viii.) and Christie (Lawson) 
Lowe, born in Whitaker, Mich.: 

i. Irene E., b. Sept. 15, 1895. 

ii. Carlos Webster, b. June 30, 1897. 

iii. LuciLE Edith, b. Aug., 1899. 

100-ii. William Vose Lowe, born Sept. 25, 1859, 
in Augusta, Mich.; married Dec. 2, 1891, Frances Ida 
Boutelle, v^ho \vas born Sept. 5, 1870, and graduated 
from Fitchburg high school, 1890. William came to Fitch- 
burg when quite young: graduated from Worcester Poly- 
technic Institute in 1881, department of mechanical engi- 
neering. Worked in Fitchburg for the Fitchburg Steam 
Engine Co., C. H. Brown & Co., Simonds Rolling-Machine 
Co., and Parkhill Manufacturing Co.; was superintendent 



78 The Ancestors and Their Descendants. 

of the Fitchburg Woolen mill 1883-1887. Since Septem- 
ber, 1889, has been mechanical engineer in charge of the 
department of draughting and design, with United Shoe 
Making Co., Winchester, Mass. Member of the city coun- 
cil, Fitchburg, 1893-94; member of Apollo Lodge, No. 
205, I. O. O. F.; treasurer of C. C. church 1893-98; mem- 
ber of Washburn Association Mechanical Engineers since 

1889. 

Issue of William V. (100-ii.) and Frances L. (Boutelle) 

Lowe: 

i. Mildred A., b. Sept. It), 1S92. 

ii. Richard V., b. March 2, 1894. 

iii. Mary Boutelle, b. April 13, 1896. 

iv. Hester Frances, b. Nov. 10. 1897. 

101-iii. Eugene Francis Lowe, born July 11, 1864, 
in Fitchburg; joined the C. C. church; married, first, by 
Rev. C. R. Gale, to Myrta Maynard June 13, 1888; she 
was born Jan. 13, 1866, in Rockford, 111.; they were mar- 
ried in Fitchl)urg and lived in the house with his father 
on Pearl hill; she died Feb. 15, 1899. Married, second, 
June 1, 1900, Milley Willis, born in Templeton Jan. 28, 
1872; her father was Aaron Sawyer Willis, born Dec. 16, 
1822, a descendant of Thomas Sawyer and Mary Pres- 
cott, ancestors of Mary Sawyer, who married Joseph 
Lowe (15-ii.); her mother was Louisa E. Blodgett, born 
May 7, 1833; died May 19, 1898. Eugene has been very 
successful in market gardening. 

Issue of Eugene F. (101-iii.) and Myrta (Maynard) 
Lowe : 

i. Harold Maynard, b. Oct. 11, 1889. 
ii. Percival Eugene, b. Sept. 15, 1891. 



CHAPTER VI. 

'Descendants of Mary (16-iii.) Daughter of Joseph 
(13-iv.) AND Abigail (14-iii.) Lowe. 

SIXTH GENERATION. 

16-iii. Mary Low was born in Fitchburg Aug. 12, 
1770. 

We find this entry in the Old Records of the Town of 
Fitchburg, Vol. II., page 242: 

May 24tli 1794. this Day M"" Amos Wheeler applied to me the sub- 
Icriber to be Published to Mrs Mar^' Low for Marriage Both of 
ye Town of Fitchburg Phinehas Hartwell Town Clerk 

In the same volume, page 216, we find among the 
marriages returned b}- Daniel Putnam, Escj., to the town 
clerk, the following: 

on the 10 Day of June 1794 Amos Wheeler & Mary Low Roth of 
fitchburg Joined in Marriage 

Mary died July 25, 1827, of consumption; Amos died 
Feb. 29,' 1844. 

Issue of Mary (Low) (16-3) and Amos Wheeler, born 
in Fitchburg : 

i. Amos, b. July 27, 1794; d. Sept. 29, 1800. 
ii. Mary, b. Jan. 7, 1804; d. May 24, 1828. 
103— iii. Abigail Lowe, b. Aug. 24, 1807. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 

103-iii. Abigail Lowe Wheeler, born Aug. 24, 1807 ; 
married Nov. 26, 1834, Jacob Harris Merriam, who was 
born Jan. 22, 1799, and died April 3, 1888; she died Oct. 
10, 1890. 



80 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Issue of Abigail Lowe (Wheeler) (103-iii.) and Jacob H. 
Merriam, born in Fitchburg: 

i. Mary Elizabeth, b. Jan. 4, 1838; d. Nov. 18. 1891, in Fitch- 
burg. 

ii. Sarah Abbie, b. Sept. 24, 1839; d. Nov. 26, 1855. in Fitchburjj. 
104— iii. Ellen .\fGUSTA. b. Sept. 21, 1840. 
105— iv. Lyman Wheeler, b. Mar. 31, 1844. 



EIGHTH GENERATION. 

104-iii. Ellen Augusta, born Sept. 21, 1840, died 
Dec. 12, 1871, in Pittsfield, N. H., and buried there. Mar- 
ried Oct. 27, 1870, Charles B. Prescott of Pittsfield, N. H., 
a descendant of James Prescott, brother of Capt. John 
Prescott who settled in Lancaster, Mass. 

Issue of Ellen A. (Merriam) (104-8) and George B. 
Prescott : 

i. George Tilton, b. Dec. 8, 1871, in Pittsfield, N. H.; came to 
Fitchburg in 1891, learned the machinist trade in the Fitch- 
burg Machine Works and still works there. 



105-iv. Lyman Wheeler Merriam, born March 31, 
1844; married July 16, 1868, Ellen Maria Lowe (81-i.). 
For a fuller account see pages 48-50. 

Issue of Lyman Wheeler (105-iv.) and Ellen Maria 
(Lowe) (81-i.) Merriam: 

102— i. Sarah Abbie, b. Aug. 9, 1869. 

ii. Frederic Lowe, b. Aug. 2, 1871. 

iii. Louisa Adeline, b. Aug. 21, 1872. 

iv. Alice Edna, b. Nov. 25, 1874. 

V. John Lowe, b. July 9, 1876. 

vi. Edith Augusta, b. March 5, 1878. 

vii. Lizzie Maria, b. Sept. 27, 1880. 

viii. Clifton Harris, b. Dec. 30, 1883. 

ix. Henry Mead, b. Sept. 11, 1885. 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 81 

NINTH GENERATION. 

103-i. Sarah Abbie Merriam, born Aug. 9, 1869, in 
Fitchburg; married Sept. 11, 1890, James Lewis Harring- 
ton of Lunenburg. 

Issue of Sarah Abbie (Merriam) (102-i.) and James L. 
Harrington, born in Lunenburg: 

i. Lewis Lowe, b. Jan. 14, 1892. 

ii. KvTH Louise, b. May 23, 1893. 

Hi. Carl Rogus, b. March 2, 1896. 

iv. Harold Leon, b. June 13, 1898. 



CHAPTER VII. 

Ancestry of Mary Lamb, Wife of David Low (6-iv.). 

Thomas Lamb of Roxbury, yeoman, came from Eng- 
land in the Winthrop fleet in 1630, Ijringing his wife, 
EHzabeth, and two sons, Thomas, Jr., and John. After 
her death, Thomas, Sr., married Dorothy Harbottle, a 
godh^ sister of the church, July 16, 1640. They had only 
one son, Caleb, born April 9, 1641 ; he lived in Roxbury 
and was a mariner. June 30, 1669, he married Mary, 
daughter of Joseph Wise. The\' had Mary, bom March 
7, 1681, who married David Low. She received a Bible 
from her mother on the latter's deathbed. Ten pounds, 
nineteen shillings, two pence, was the total sum the court 
first assigned her from her father's estate, but she eventu- 
alh' got twenty-one pounds odd from her brother, and 
probably five pounds from John Wise, who settled her 
grandfather's estate. This estate contained a homestead 
and an orchard of one and one-half acres in Roxbury, on 
the street or common road, bounded by this and land of 
John Elliot, Edmund Wells and James Bailey, Jr., and a 
farm in Providence. His estate, less debts, inventoried at 
two hundred and ten pounds, fifteen shillings, four pence. 
A dispute arising among the heirs, Jeremiah was given 
the homestead providing he pay his brother John and 
nieces Mar^^ Eunice and Huldah twenty-one pounds, thir- 
teen shillings, four pence, each ; this appraised the whole 
real estate at one hundred and thirty pounds. This court 
order was dated Sept. 19, 1701; on vSept. 25, 1701, Jere- 
miah sold the Roxbury property alone, minus the Provi- 
dence property, to Nehemiah Walter for one hundred and 
forty pounds. The trouble continued and John Wise was 
forced to secure from Huldah, 3'oungest daughter of Ca- 
leb, at Ipswich June 15, 1716, a quitclaim deed of her 



The John Loiuc Family Circle. 83 

share in the remnant of the estate for five pounds ster- 
ling, and Nov. 5, 1721, the witnesses swore again that 
they saw the quitclaim signed. This shows that Caleb 
Lamb died before his father, Thomas Lamb of Roxbury, 
and that Huldah, after the mother's death, went to live 
with her sister Mary, who married David Low^e of Ips- 
wich, 1699. These three daughters, Mary, Eunice and 
Huldah, appear to be all the children Caleb Lamb left, 
and Caleb being only half-brother of John and Jeremiah,' 
and deceased, was the probable cause of the trouble in 
the settling of Thomas Lamb's estate. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Ancestry of Polly Sawyer, Wife of Joseph Low, 

Jr. (15-ii.). 

The will of Thomas Sawyer, filed among the Middle- 
sex Probate Records, mentions sons Thomas, Joshua, 
James, Caleb, Nathaniel; daughter, Mary Wilder; wife, 
Mary. It was dated March 6, 1705-6, and probated 
April 12, 1723. The wife died about 1721. 

The Records of the First Church, Lancaster, page 
271, state that on March 25, 1715-16, Nathaniel Saw- 
yer was admitted to the church. Page 275, May 6, 
1716, Nathaniel Sawyer's children, John, Ezra, Nathaniel, 
Thomas, Phineas and Mary, were baptized. Page 55, 
Book First, Amos Sawyer, son of Nathaniel and Mary 
Sawyer, was born June 20, 1693. The children of Phineas 
and Mary Sawyer, as found among the baptisms, were 
Phineas, Beulah, Mary, Eunice, Joseph, Abner, Luke, Mary 
and Luke. 

In the Registry of Deeds for Middlesex county is found 
a deed dated Sept. 23, 1709, and recorded Dec. 12, 1719, 
by which Nathaniel Sawyer and wife Mar^' of Lancaster 
conveyed to nephew Bezeleel Saw3^er land in said town 
laid out to "my honored father, Thomas Sawyer," In 
Vol. 14, page 324, Thomas Sawyer, Sr., of Lancaster, 
yeoman, convej^ed to his loving son, Nathaniel Sawyer, 
that part of interval lot on the west side of Nashaway 
river, also all building, fencing, orcharding. Dated June 
14, 1706. Recorded Jan. 17, 1707. In Vol. 14, page 454, 
Thomas Sawj-er, Sr., of Lancaster, yeoman, conveyed 
unto "my youngest son, Nathaniel Sawyer," ten acres of 
land, Thomas to improve the land, if he needs to, during 
his lifetime. In case daughter Hannah shall not be mar- 
ried and she desires to remain on the farm, she shall not 



The John Lowe Family Circle. 85 

be molested. Dated Feb. 24, 1698. Recorded March 9, 
1707. 

At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of 
Fitchburg assembled Oct. 19, 1772, Thomas Cowdin, 
Town Clerk, Phinehas Sawyer was chosen one of a com- 
mittee "to fix Places to build the School Houses upon." 
March 1, 1773, Mr. Phinehas Sawyer and others were 
chosen to be "Survaers of high ways and also Colectors 
of high way Taxes." Oct. 25, 1773, Phinehas Sawyer 
w^as chosen one of a committee "to provide a Scool or 
Scools and that the Scool money be Laid out as it was 
Last year." March 6, 1780, "voted and Chofe mr Phine- 
has Sawyer Cunftable for the South Side of s^ Town." 
"voted and Reconsidered the vote and mr Phinehas Saw- 
yer be Excufed from Serving Cunftable." 

There are several records of interest in the Worcester 
county registry of deeds. May 24, 1738, Nathaniel Saw^- 
yer, in consideration of the "love and good will" which 
he bore his son Phinehas, conveyed to him one-half of 
what had been the home place of his father, Thomas, in 
Lancaster. May 25, 1738, for the same consideration, 
Nathaniel conveyed to Phinehas the other half of the 
Thomas Sawyer place, except two acres which had been 
conveyed to Nathaniel's brother Thomas. This deed was 
recorded in 1769. April 13, 1780, Phinehas Sawyer con- 
veyed to Phinehas Sawyer, Jr., land in Fitchburg; he also 
conveyed at a date not mentioned seventy acres of land 
in Princeton to Moses Sawj'cr; Dec. 9, 1791, he conve3'ed 
land in Lancaster. Phinehas married Mary Sawyer, daugh- 
ter of Joseph Sawyer, and her signature appears on the 
three deeds last mentioned. 

"The Sawyers of Berlin are descendants of Thomas 
Sawyer, son of John Sawyer of Lincolnshire, England, 
who was born in England in 1616, who came from Row- 
ley, Mass., and settled in Lancaster in 1647; he was a 
blacksmith. His wife was Mary, the daughter of John 
Prescott, the head man of early Lancaster. His home- 
stead was on the present grounds of the Seventh Day 
Adventists, between South Lancaster and Clinton. He 



86 The Ancestors and Their Desce?idants 

died Sept. 12, 1706, at about ninety years, leaving ten 
children; the oldest of these, Thomas, Jr., born 1648, was 
in the lineage of our Berlin Sawyers, and was the one 
captured by the Indians in 1705. The storj^ of his cap- 
tivity has given him a popular fame above all college 
graduates. Nothing gave notoriet^^ like exploits with In- 
dians, nor can the Lancaster experiences be forgotten in 
an3' age. Sawyer's is romantic, though oft repeated. 
This Indian raid and capture during Queen Anne's w^ar 
was nearly thirty years after the Lancaster massacre (so- 
called) in King Philip's war in 1676. The Indians were 
from Canada, were the allies of the French in the contest 
involving the French and English colonies in America ; the 
event occurred on the 16th of October, 1705. This 
Thomas Sawyer, Jr., while at w^ork in his sawmill, at 
present 'Deer's Horn,' together with his son Elias and 
John Bigelow of Marlboro, was captured by the Indians 
and taken to Canada. A younger brother of Elias 
escaped through a window. 

"Sawyer was a millwright, Bigelow a carpenter. The 
French had no sawmill. S^iwyer saw their opportunity. 
For their liberty he proposed to the French governor to 
appropriate the water of the Chambly river to lumber 
making. The governor saw his opportunity^ too, but the 
Indians did not see it in the same light. They saw in the 
vigor of their chief captive the pluck of a good subject 
for their devilish torture. The narration has it that he 
was finally tied to a stake; the French Catholic priests 
had gained much influence over the Indians. A friar was 
equal to the occasion; brandishing a key in mid-air, he 
threatened to 'unlock purgatory and thrust them into 
eternal fires if they did not release the prisoner.' Super- 
stition has its uses ; they let him go ; the mill was built, 
the first in all Canada; Thomas Saw^^er and Bigelow 
came home; Elias was detained a year longer to run the 
mill and instruct the others in the art of sawing. No 
wonder the Sawyers have had sawmill 'on the brain.' If 
you can find a sawmill in all this region not started by a 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 87 

Sawyer, publish it. Some Sawyer doubtless was responsi- 
ble for this old saw: 

Sawyer says of all the saws 

He ever saw saw, 
He never saw a saw saw, 

As Sawyer's saw saws." 

We have copied the above from Houghton's History 
of Berlin, Mass., pages 471-473, because Thomas, Jr., was 
Nathaniel's oldest brother, and it is an interesting account 
of early history. 

Issue of Nathaniel (13-x.) and Mary Sawyer: 

i. Amos, b. 1693. 

ii. Samuel, b. 1698. 

iii. John, b. 1700. 

iv. Ezra, b. 1702. 

V. Nathaniel. 

vi. Thomas, b. 1711. 

116— vii. Phineas, b. 1714. 

116-vii. Phineas Sawyer, born 1714; married, June 
1, 1737, Mary Sawyer, daughter of Joseph Sawyer; he 
moved with his family to Fitchburg about 1770. 

Issue of Phineas (116-vii.) and Mary (Sawyer) Saw- 
yer: 

i. Phineas, Jr., ni. Mary Prescott of Lancaster Jan. 4, 1774. 

ii. Beulah. 

iii. May. 

iv. Eunice. 

V. Joseph, m. Molly Stewart Sept. 8, 1774, by Rev. John Payson. 

vi. Abner, m. Elizaljeth Perkins March 27, 1777. 

vii. Luke. 

viii. Polly, m. Joseph Lowe, Jr., (15-ii.) Dec. 27, 1787, by Rev. 

John Payson. 
ix. Luke, m. Polly Smith Dec. 27, 1787. 



CHAPTER IX. 

Extracts from the " Prescott Memorial." 

As many persons of the present day are not aware of 
the importance which was attached to the privilege of 
being admitted a freeman by our ancestors, it will doubt- 
less be interesting to such to introduce in this connection 
a history of the origin of the ceremony, and the oath of 
allegiance as conditions of admission to the privileges of 
a freeman. 

Under the first charter of the Massachusetts Colonj^ 
none were regarded as freemen or members of the body 
politic, except such as were admitted by the general court 
and took the oath of allegiance to the government. The 
first freemen were admitted at the first session of the gen- 
eral court, which was held on the 19th of October, 1630. 

This custom continued vintil, by the second charter, the 
colony was transformed into a province. But in 1634 the 
foregoing regulations were somewhat modified. It was 
then ordained that no individual should be deemed quali- 
fied to exercise the right of suffrage, or hold any public 
ofl&ce, until he was admitted a freeman by the general or 
quarterh^ court. To become a freeman he was required 
to produce evidence that he was a respectable member, in 
good standing, of some Congregational church. 

This regulation was so far modified by royal order in 
1664 as to allow individuals to be made freemen who 
could obtain certificates of their being correct in doctrine 
and conduct from some clerg^^man acquainted with them. 
But this was by no means an easy matter, with the prej- 
udices and jealousies then existing against all such as 
were not members of the church. 

The following is a copy of the Freeman's oath as 
revised and modified in 1634: 



The John Lowe Family Circle. 89 

"I (A. B.), being by God's providence an Inhabitant 
and Fi'eeman within the Jurisdiction of this Common- 
wealth ; do freely acknowledge myself to be subject to 
the Government thereof: And therefore do here swear by 
the great and dreadful Name of the Ever-living God, that 
I will be true and faithful to the same, and will accord- 
ingly yield assistance and support thereunto, with my 
person and estate, as in equity I am bound ; and will 
also truly endeavor to maintain and preserve all the lib- 
erties and privileges thereof, submitting myself to the 
wholesome Laws and Orders made and established by the 
same. And further that I w^ill not plot or practice any 
evil against it, or consent to any that shall so do ; but 
will timely discover and reveal the same to the lawful 
Authority now here established for the speedy preventing 
thereof. 

"Moreover, I do solemnly bind myself in the sight of 
God, that when I shall be called to give my voice touch- 
ing any matter of this state in which Freemen are to 
deal, I will give my vote and suffrage as I shall judge in 
mine own conscience maj^ best conduce and tend to the 
public weal of the body. So help me God in the Lord Je- 
sus Christ." 

It is to be recollected that none but Freemen could 
vote at any election, or hold any office, not even that of 
a juryman. And none could be admitted a Freeman un- 
less he was a member of the church. Whenever any per- 
son not a church member was tried for any crime or of- 
fence, therefore it was by both judge and jury belonging 
to the church and entertaining strong prejudices against 
him. 

"This," remarked Gov. Hutchinson, "was a most ex- 
traordinary order of law," and yet it was continued in 
force until the dissolution of the colonial governments. 
Were the laws and customs thus in this our day of reck- 
less and unprincipled office-seeking, there would, most 
likely, be a large preponderance of hypocrites over the 
humble, pious Christians in our churches. 

The name of Prescott is of Saxon origin, and is com- 



90 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

posed by the contraction of two Saxon words, priest and 
cottage, and therefore signifies priest-cottage, or priest's 
house. It has long been known in England, having been 
given to a street and a lane or place in the ancient city 
of London. Prescott is also the name of a market town 
in Lancaster county (or Lancashire), England, one hun- 
dred and ninety-eight miles from London, and about one 
mile from the Liverpool and Manchester railway, contain- 
ing 34,920 acres and 28,084 inhabitants (according to 
Kelley's Gazetteer). It is celebrated for the manufacture of 
watches and watch tools. About two thousand persons 
are also engaged in the collieries, and it supplies Liver- 
pool with fuel. Those of the name that emigrated to this 
country originated, or their ancestors originated, from 
this town in England. Orders of knighthood were con- 
ferred upon some iDranches of the famih', and thej^ were 
among the nobility of England. A metallic coat of mail 
and armor, such as were worn by ancient knights, was 
brought to this countr}' by the emigrant, John Prescott, 
which will be more particularly' noticed hereafter. 

There is also preserved by the descendants in this 
country (America) a family coat of arms, which was con- 
ferred upon one of the remote ancestors for his bravery- , 
courage and successful enterprise as a man and a military 
officer. This coat of arms must have had quite an an- 
cient origin, as they are worn both by the Prescotts of 
Theobold's Park, Hertfordshire, Barts., and b\' those of 
the ancient families of Lancashire and Yorkshire. It is 
described in the language of heraldry' bA' Mr. Burke as 
follows: "Sable, a chevron between three owls, argent 
(two in chief, one in base). Crest, a cubit arm, couped 
erect, vested, gules. Cuff, ermine, holding in the hand a 
pitch pot (or hand beacon), sable, fired proper." 

The arms of the Prescotts in Hampshire differ from 
the above in nothing but the crest, for which they have 
adopted a buck, sejant upon a mural coronet. Another 
family has the chevron ermine, the other parts as Pres- 
cott, Bart. The arms of the Prescotts of Dr^-b^' in the 
count}' of Lincoln, England, and which belong to the 



of the John Lozve Family Circle. 91 

descendants of the emigrant, James Prescott of New 
Hampshire, are thus described by Mr. Burke, to wit: 
"Ermine, a chevron sable— on a chief of the second, two 
leopard's heads, or. Crest— out of a ducal coronet or, a 
boar's head and neck or bristled of the first." The owls 
signify a prudent caution, with patient endurance and a 
vigilant watchfulness, especially by night. The owl is Mi- 
nerva's bird, and was borne by the ancient Athenians at 
their armorial feasts. 

The first mention we find of the name is in Vol. 11, 
pages 29 and 30, of Thomas Rymer's Foedera, under the 
title, " Supra Aquae ductihus de ConBrmatione,'' as follows : 
''Coram Dominus H. de Patershall, Domini Regis Thesau- 
rario ; Magistro Waltero H. de Prestecote, Vice Cancella- 
rio, et als.,'' wherein a confirmation of a grant made con- 
cerning aqueducts of the city of London by H. de Pater- 
shall, treasurer to the king, is addressed to Walter Pres- 
cott, vice chancellor, and others (named). 

But although we are not able to trace the direct line- 
age of the Prescotts that came to America farther back 
than the time of Queen Elizabeth, yet it is well known 
that Prescott was known as an ancient family in the 
town of Prescott aforesaid, in the county of Lancaster, 
or Lancashire, England, from whom descended James 
Prescott of Standish, in Lancashire, one of the gentlemen 
of Lancashire who were required by an order of Queen 
Elizabeth, dated August, 1564, to keep in readiness horse- 
men and armor. 

He married a daughter of Roger Standish, Esq., of 
vStandish, and sister of Ralph Standish. 

Issue of James Prescott, Sr., and Standish: 

106— i. James, bap. 
107— ii. Roger, bap. 

iii. Ralph, bap.; d. young. 

iv. Robert, bap.; m. Feb. 3, 1565, Elizabeth Nightingale. He 
resided at Standish, where he d. in 1576, leaving sons John 
and Robert, and dau. Elizabeth, who m. Alex. Standish (?). 
V. William, bap.; he had three wives; by his second wife, Mar- 
garet, he had, with others, Alexander Prescott of London, 
who was the father of Sir John Prescott, lord of the man- 



92 The Ancestors ajid Their Descendants 

ors of Radwington in Essex, and Bromley in Kent coun- 
ties. Sir John died in 1640, leaving two daughters, co- 
heiresses. William (6-v.) resided at Copley, in the parish 
of Standish, in Lancashire. 

vi. John, bap.; m. Anne ; resided at Sutterby, in the county 

of Lincoln ; by his wife Anne he had an only daughter, 
Anne, who m. William Boston of Phimbleby, in the county 
of Lincoln. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

106-i. James Prescott, baptized; married Alice Moli- 
neaux. For his bravery and military prowess and achieve- 
ments he was created lord of the manor of Dryby, in Lin- 
colnshire, and had new arms granted to him, described 
above, and was afterwards known as Sir James Prescott. 
He died March 1, 1583, leaving a son, John, and a 
daughter, Anne. 

Issue of Sir James Prescott (106-i.) and Alice Moli- 
neaux of Dr\'by, in Lincolnshire: 

i. John, b. at Dryby; m. (but wc know not who) and had chil- 
dren ; lived at Dryby. 
ii. Ann, b. at Dryb\'. 



107 -ii. Roger Prescott, baptized; married, first, 
Elizabeth , in 1563. She dying soon, he married, sec- 
ond, Ellen (?) Shaw of Standish Aug. 20, 1568. He 
resided in Shevington, in the parish of Standish. His will 
was dated Sept. 26, 1594, and he was buried in the 
church at Standish. 

Issue of Roger Prescott (107-ii.) and first wife, Eliza- 
beth, of Shevington: 

i. Helen, bap. at Standish March 3, 1564. 
ii. Lawrence, bap. at Standish Sept. 23, 156G. 

Issue b^-- second wife, Ellen Shaw : 

iii. Anne, bap. March 28, 1569; m. Alexander Wymarde. 
108— iv. Ralph, bap. 1571-72. 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 93 

THIRD GENERATION. 

108-iv. Ralph Prescott, baptized 1571-72; mar- 
ried Ellen , who Avas co-executor to her husband's 

will. He resided at Shevington in the parish of Standish, 
and was co-executor to his father's will ; his own will 
was dated Nov. 7, 1608, and was proved Jan. 24, 1609. 

Issue of Ralph Prescott (108-iv.) and Ellen of 

Shevington : 

i. Helen, bap. at Standish Oct. 1, 1593. 

ii. Roger, bap. at Standish Dec. 10, 1594. 

iii. Alice, bap. at Standish Feb. 7, 1598. 

iv. Cecilia, bap. at Standish Oct. 16, 1602. 

109— V. John, bap. at Standish 1604-5. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

109-v. John Prescott, baptized at Standish 1604-5. 
He is named in his father's will. He married, Jan. 21, 
1629, Mary Platts, at Wigan, in Lancashire. Her family 
appears to have been subsequenth^ of the parish of Hali- 
fax in Yorkshire, some of whom are mentioned in the will 
of George Fairbanks of Sowerby, dated in 1650. 

Mr. Prescott sold his lands in Shevington, parish of 
Standish, in Lancashire, to Richard Prescott of Wigan, 
and removed into Yorkshire, residing for some time in 
Sowerby, in the parish of Halifax, where several of his 
children were born. From conscientious motives, and to 
avoid persecution, he left his native land, his cherished 
home in Yorkshire, to seek an asylum in the wilderness of 
America. He first landed at Barbadoes in 1638, where he 
became an owner of lands. In 1640 he came to New 
England, landed at Boston, and immediate^ settled in 
Watertown, where he had large grants of land allotted 
him. But in 1643 he associated himself with Thomas 
King and others, for the purpose of purchasing of Sholan, 
the Indian sachem of the Nashaway tribe of Indians, a 
tract of land for a township, which tract was to be ten 
miles in length and eight in breadth. 



94 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Early in the seventeenth century, some eight years 
before the settlement of Plymouth, many of the tribes of 
Massachusetts Indians had been swept over by a dreadful 
pestilence, reducing their numbers from man}- thousands 
to a few hundreds. In this severe affliction the Nashaway 
tribe suffered, though not equally with the others. The 
Nashaways had also been greatly reduced by the wars 
and incursions of the Maquas or Mohawks, a powerful 
and warlike tribe on the Mohawk river, N. Y. This tribe 
had become the scourge and terror of all the New Eng- 
land Indians. These circumstances induced the peaceful 
Sholan, the sachem of the Nashaways, to seek the friend- 
ship and protection of the English. Sholan occasionally 
visited Watertown for the purpose of trading with Mr. 
Thomas King, who resided there. He recommended Nasha- 
wogg as a place well suited for a plantation. He told 
King of the choice intervales, the woods and waters 
abounding in supplies; that the Great Spirit had been 
very bountiful to the place, and that his people would 
rejoice in the presence of that great people who had come 
from a distant world. 

Finalh', King decides to visit the place, perilous though 
the undertaking might seem. He accordingl3' takes the 
journey through the wilderness, and becomes enamored 
with the place and returns to Watertown. He makes 
such favorable report of the adaptation of the territory 
to agriculture and mechanical purposes, etc., that in 1643 
he enters into an association and agreement ^vith John 
Prescott of Watertown, Harmon Garrett of Charlestown, 
Thomas Skidmore of Cambridge, Stephen Day of Cam- 
bridge (the earliest printer in any of the colonies), a Mr. 
Simonds, and sundry others whose names have not been 
transmitted, for the purpose of purchasing the tract (ten 
miles by eight, as above stated). According to Mr. Wil- 
lard, in his elaborate address at the tw^o hundredth anni- 
versar}^ of the incorporation of Lancaster, the above pur- 
chase was made, and the territory of Nashaw^ay first 
"opened upon the view^ of the w^hite man while the good 
Sholan or Shaumaun exercised a peaceful rule in this, his 



of the John Lozve Family Circle. 95 

empire, over the tribe of the Nashaways. His principal 
place of residence was on a gentle eminence between the 
two lakes of Washacum and Chocksett (a corruption or 
contraction of Woonksechaucksett or Woonkechauxett), 
now Sterling." The purchasers entered into an agreement 
to appear and begin the plantation at a specified time. 
The deed of Sholan was sanctioned by the general court, 
but there were man3' circumstances which combined to 
retard the gro\vth of the plantation, all the associates 
except Mr. Prescott refusing or neglecting to fulfil their 
contracts, though choosing to retain their interest in the 
propert\' purchased. It is stated by Mr. Willard that 
"one onh' of the associates, John Prescott, the stalwart 
blacksmith, was 'faithful among the faithless.' He turned 
not back, but vigorously pursued the interests of the plan- 
tation till his exertions were crowned with success." 

Mr. Prescott having chosen this for his future home, 
he with others petitioned for a bridge over Sudbury river. 
But the subject being delayed by the general court, Mr. 
Prescott, nothing daunted, attempts the perilous adven- 
ture of swimming his horse across Sudbury river in the 
autumn of 1646, but unfortunately he lost his horse and 
lading in the river, escaping with his own life only. 
About one w^eek later, his wife and children being upon 
another horse, attempted to pass the river and came near 
being drowned. Upon this narrow escape Mr. Willard 
utters the following significant reflection: "One plunge 
more by that last horse, or a little deeper water, and 
American literature would not now be graced by the bril- 
liant classic history of Ferdinand and Isabella, of the 
Concj[uest of Mexico and the Conquest of Peru," to which 
may since be added, the Life of Charles the Fifth. 

The settlement at Nashaway was treated by the gen- 
eral court with indifference and culpable neglect. They 
had repeatedly been denied those little helps and aids 
which are so essential to all new settlements. The inhabi- 
tants petitioned for an act of incorporation, and asked 
that it be known b}^ the name of Prescott. The general 
court objects, quibbles about a name, pretending that "it 



96 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

smacked too much of man worship or man service." The 
question was finally settled by a compromise, and it was 
on the 18th day of May, old style (28th of May, new 
style), 1653, incorporated into a township, by the name 
of Lancaster. This was in honor of Mr. Prescott, it be- 
ing the name of his native count}' in England. 

Mr. Prescott has the reputation of being the first set- 
tler in Nashaway, now Lancaster, although Mr. Willard 
remarks that Richard Linton, Lawrence Waters, his son- 
in-law, and John Ball, were the first inhabitants, and that 
they had tilled the soil and were ready to receive Mr. 
Prescott on his arrival. I do not see this stated by any 
other writer, and if correct they might be hired and sent 
there by Mr. Prescott and others to prepare for their 
own accommodation when they should remove there. 
The phrase that "they had tilled the soil and were ready 
to receive Mr. Prescott on his arrival" is significant of 
this fact. 

At the time of the incorporation there were but nine 
families in the town. In one year, that is, by the spring 
of 1654, there were twenty families there. In answer to 
a petition of the inhaliitants of the plantation, John Pres- 
cott, Thomas Saw3'er (who married Mary, the eldest 
daughter of Mr. Prescott), Edward Breck, Nathaniel Had- 
lock, William Kerley and Ralph Houghton were appointed 
prudential managers of the town by the general court. 

Mr. Prescott was a genuine and influential member of 
the original Puritan stock of New England. Like most 
of the early emigrants to New England, he left his native 
home to escape the relentless persecutions with which the 
Puritans and non-conformists were harassed. Like many 
of his contemporaries, he was a man of marked charac- 
ter, devoting his time to mechanical and agricultural pur- 
suits, which were well calculated to fit and prepare him 
for the trials and hardships incident to, and inseparable 
from, the early settlers and pioneers of the wilderness of 
America. He soon became distinguished among his com- 
peers, and had not long to wait for an opportunity to 
develop his genius and bravery. At a very early day he 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 97 

became a leading spirit, and a prominent and influential 
man, as ver}^ man3^ of his descendants have been in each 
and every subsequent generation, and to him more than 
to any other is to be attributed the successful issue of 
that laborious and hazardous enterprise of settling on the 
"NashaM^ay" and of subduing the wilderness and con- 
verting the soil into fruitful fields and productive meadows. 
He was a man of strict integrity- and of great energy 
and perseverance. Having also a commanding influence, 
he took an active part in all measures calculated to im- 
prove and enhance the interest and prosperity of the 
town. He took the oath of fidelity in 1652, and was 
admitted a freeman in 1669. By occupation he was not 
only an agriculturist, but both a blacksmith and mill- 
wright. In November, 1653, he received a grant of land 
of the inhabitants, on condition that he would build a 
"corn mill." He built the mill in season to commence 
grinding on the 28d of the next May, 1654. The erection 
of a sawmill soon followed. "The town voted that if he 
would erect one he should have the grant of certain privi- 
leges and a large tract of land lying near his mill, for him 
and his posterity forever, and to be more exactly recorded 
when exactly known. In consideration of these provi- 
sions, 'Goodman Prescott ' forthwith erected his mill." 
"Its location was on the spot where the Lancaster Man- 
ufacturing Co. have extensive works. The people from all 
the neighboring towns came to Prescott's gristmill. The 
stone of this mill was brought from England, and now 
lies in fragments in the vicinity of the factory." 

Lancaster, in common with other frontier towns, suf- 
fered greatly by Indian depredations whenever there was 
a war between the mother country and France. On the 
22d of August, 1675, eight persons were killed at Lancas- 
ter. On the 10th of February, old style, 1676, early in 
the morning, a body of fifteen hundred Indians attacked 
the town in five distinct squadrons, completely investing 
it. There were at that time more than fifty families in 
town. Of this little band, fifty persons, if not more, were 
either killed or taken prisoners. One-half, at least, were 



\) 



98 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

killed, and among them Richard Wheeler and Jonas Fair- 
banks, sons-in-law of Mr. Prescott, and Joshua Fairbanks 
and Ephraim Sawyer, his grandsons. The three former 
were killed at Wheeler's garrison, and the latter at Pres- 
cott's, which stood about thirty rods southeast of Messrs. 
Poignard and Plant's factory. The inhabitants, after de- 
stroying all the houses but two, left the place under the 
protection of Capt. Wadsworth's company of soldiers. 
The alarm of the people was so great that the return of 
peace on the death of the Indian, King Philip, in August, 
1676, did not restore their courage and confidence. For 
more than three 3'ears, Lancaster remained uninhabited. 
In 1679 some of the first planters (among whom were the 
Prescotts, Houghtons, Saw3^ers and Wilders) returned, 
and the Carters came in soon after. 

Mr. Prescott lived to see the town rebuilt and in a 
fair way to a prosperous condition. He died in 1683. 
But subsequently to this the town suffered severely at 
sundr3'- times from the incursions of hostile Indians. In 
1702 the war between England and France was renewed, 
and 1704 was a period of great distress and suffering 
from Indian depredations. They made an attack on Lan- 
caster in Juh' of that year, and, after defeating the sol- 
diers and driving them into their garrisons, they burned 
the church and six houses, and destroyed much live stock 
and other property. In 1705 Thomas Sawyer, Jr., and 
his son Elias, grandson and great-grandson of John Pres- 
cott, Sr., together with John Biglo (now written Bige- 
low), were taken prisoners and carried to Canada. Thom- 
as Sawyer, on arrival of the party at Montreal, offered 
to build a sawmill on the Chamblee river, provided the 
French governor would obtain a release of all the cap- 
tives. This he promised, if possible, to do. The son Elias 
and Biglo were easily ransomed, but the Indians deter- 
mined to put the father to death b3^ a lingering torture. 
His deliverance was finalh' effected b}^ the timeW appear- 
ance of a friar, who told the Indians that he held the 
kej^s of Purgator\' in his hand, and that unless they im- 
mediateh' released their prisoner he would unlock the 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 99 

gates and cast them in headlong. Their superstitious fears 
prevailed. They unbound Sawyer from the stake and 
delivered him to the governor. Sawyer finished the mill 
in a year and was sent home. Whitney says this was the 
first sawmill erected in Canada. 

John Prescott and family being so conspicuously iden- 
tified with these Indian depredations upon Lancaster, is 
our only apology for these lengthened remarks concerning 
them in this connection. 

Mr. Prescott l^rought with him from England a coat of 
mail, armor and habiliments complete, such as were worn 
by warriors of that and preceding ages ; hence it is in- 
ferred that some of his ancestors had been warriors, and 
probably had received the order of knighthood. It has 
been stated and believed that John had himself served 
under Cromwell. "Being a strong, athletic man, and of a 
stern countenance, whenever he had any difficulty with 
the Indians, he would clothe himself with his coat of mail, 
helmet, cuirass and gorget, which gave him a fierce and 
frightful appearance. The Indians at one time having 
stolen from him a horse, he put on his armor and pur- 
sued them, and in a short time overtook them. They 
were surprised that he should venture to pursue them 
alone, and a chief approached him with uplifted toma- 
hawk. Mr. Prescott told him to strike, which he did, 
and finding the blow made no impression on his cap, was 
greatly astonished, and asked Mr. Prescott to let him put 
it on, and then strike it while on his head, as he had 
done when on Mr. Prescott's head. The helmet being too 
small for the head of the chief, the stroke settled the hel- 
met down to his ears, scraping off the skin on both sides 
of his head. They then gave back his horse, supposing 
him to be something more than human." "At another 
time the Indians set fire to his barn. Old John put on his 
armor, rushed out, drove them off and let out his cattle 
and horses from the burning stable." "Again the Indians 
set fire to his sawmill. The old hero, armed cap-a-pie, as 
before, drove them off and extinguished the fire. At an- 
other time thev attacked his house. He had several mus- 



100 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

kets, but no one in the house, save his wife, to assist him. 
She loaded the guns and he discharged them with fatal 
effect. The contest continued for nearly half an hour, Mr. 
Prescott all the while giving orders as if to soldiers, so 
loud that the Indians could hear him, to load their mus- 
kets, though he had no soldiers but his wife. At length 
thev withdrew, carrv'ing off several of their dead or 
wounded." 

On another occasion, as is related of him, sundry In- 
dians made their appearance at his old mill and hoisted 
the water gate, when he (Prescott) took his favorite gun, 
which he brought from England, heavily loaded, and 
started toward the mill, when the Indians retired to the 
hills near b}-. Having shut down the gate and fixed the 
mill, Mr. Prescott thought it prudent to retire to his 
house or garrison, but did so backward, with his eye up- 
on the foe until he reached his home, when he concluded 
to give them a specimen of his sharp-shooting, upon 
which (to use a new coined term) the^^ "skedaddled." 
Upon afterward visiting the place, blood was plainly seen 
upon the ground. 



FIRST GENERATION IN AMERICA. 

In the account of the lineal ancestry of the Prescott 
emigrants that came from Old to New England, as given 
in the introduction, it is to be seen that John Prescott, 
who came to Boston and Watertown in 1640, was the 
fourth generation from James of Standish (of 1564). 
But as the object of the following memorial is to furnish 
a record of the emigrants and their descendants only, we 
shall consider each as the first generation of their respect- 
ive races or descendants. 

First, of the descendants of John (109-v.) and Mar}- 
(Platts) Prescott, who had issue as follows: 

110— i. Mary, bap. Feb. 24, 1630. 

ii. Martha, bap. at Sowerby March 11, 1632; ru. John Rugg 
1655; resided at Lancaster. She d. Jan. 24, 1656. 



of the Jo/in Loive Family Circle. 101 

iii. John, Jr., bap. at Sowerby April 1, 1635; m. Sarah of 

Lancaster Nov. 11, 1668. 
iv. Sarah, bap. at Sowerby 1637; m. Richard Wheeler of Lan- 
caster Aug. 2, 1658. \rY\-L l^^^pU ^>^ 
V. Hannah, bap. 1639. She m. John Rugg as second wife May 
4, 1660, who had for his first wife her sister Martha. 
Ill— vi. Lydia, b. Aug. 15, 1641. 

vii. Jonathan, (?) b. about 1643. 
viii. Joseph, (?) b. about 1645 or 1646 (?). 
112— ix. Jonas, b. June, 1648. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

llO-i. Mary Prescott, baptized at Sowerby in the 
parish of Halifax in Yorkshire, England, Feb. 24, 1630; 
married Thomas Sawyer of Lancaster 1648; lived at 
Lancaster. 

Issue of Mary (Prescott) (110-i.) and Thomas Saw- 
yer: 

i. Thomas, b. July 2, 1649; m. 1st, Oct. 11, 1670, Sarah ; 

she d. March 2, 1672, leaving one child, Mary. He m. 2d, 

Nov. 21, 1672, Hannah . 

ii. Ephraim, b. Jan. 16, 1651; killed by the Indians at Pres- 

cott's garrison Feb., 1676. when Lancaster was destroyed 

by the Indians, 
iii. Mary, b. Jan. 4, 1653. 
iv. Joshua, b. March 13, 1655. 
V. James, b. March 22, 1657. 
vi. Caleb, b. April 2, 1659. 
vii. John, b. April 6, 1661. 
viii. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 6, 1664. 
ix. Deborah, b. 1666; d. July 16, 1666. 
113— X. Nathaniel, b. Nov. 24, 1670. 
xi. Martha, b. Aug. 10, 1673. 



111-vi. Lydia Prescott, born at Watertown Aug. 
15, 1641; ra. Jonas Fairbanks of Lancaster May 28, 
1658. His father was of Sowerby in Halifax, Yorkshire, 
England. He and his son Joshua were killed by Indians 
when Lancaster was destroyed, in February, 1676. 



102 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Issue of Lj'dia (Prescott) (111-vi.) and Jonas Fair- 
banks : 

i. Mary, b. June 26, 1659. 

ii. Joshua, b. April 6. 1661; killed by Indians in Feb., 1676. 

iii. Gr.\CE, b. Nov. 16, 1663. 

iv. Jonathan, b. Oct. 6, 1665. 

V. Hesadiah, b. Feb. 28. 1668. 

vi. Jabez, b. Jan. 8, 1671; m. 1st, ; m. 2d, May 25, 1719, 

Elizabeth Whitcomb. 

vii. Jonas, b. . 

11^-ix. Jonas Prescott, born at Lancaster June, 
1648; married, Dec. 14, 1672, Mary, the daughter of 
John Loker and Mary Draper of Sudbury, born Sept. 28, 
1653, and died Oct. 28, 1735, aged eight3'-t\vo years and 
one month, by whom he had four sons and eight daugh- 
ters. He settled in Groton. He, or his father for him, 
built the mill in the south part of Groton, now within 
the limits of Harvard, and is still called the "old mill." 
He bought lands in Groton until he became one of the 
largest landholders in the town. He was also a black- 
smith. Upon the resettlement of the town, after its 
destruction by the Indians in 1676, he built mills and a 
forge for the manufacture of the iron from the ore at 
Forge Valley (so-called), which was then in Groton, but 
now in Westford. He was a man of extensive influence. 
He was town clerk in 1691 ; a selectman for several 
years ; represented the town in the general assembly in 
1699 and 1705; was also captain in the militia and jus- 
tice of the peace. He maintained an elevated rank in the 
community, and died lamented Dec. 31, 1723, aged sev- 
enty-five years and six months. He resided on the farm 
near Lawrence academy, which was more recently, if not 
at this time (1866), owned by Hon. Stuart J. Park, Esq. 

A story bordering on romance has been handed down 
by family tradition to the present time, and preserved 
with much accuracy, of the courtship of this affection- 
ate pair of fruitful progenitors. John Loker, of whom 
we have no other account than as connected with this 
affair, is said to have been wealthy, and both he and his 
wife to have been somewhat aristocratic in their feelings 



of the Jo Jin Loive Family Circle. 103 

and notions. Having only one daughter, and she exceed- 
ingly fair and of good promise, they disdained to betroth 
her to a blacksmith, the son of a blacksmith, however 
rich or otherwise unexceptionable he might be. They had 
set their hearts on Mary marrying a lawyer. So when 
they found that there was a strong attachment between 
their idol Mary, and the young blacksmith (Jonas Pres- 
cott), they remonstrated, but, like many other imprudent 
parents, they unwittingly pursued a course well calculated 
to foster and strengthen it. They forbade his entering 
their house, or having any communication whatever with 
their daughter; and the more effectually to prevent any 
intercourse, they grated the windows of her apartments 
in the house ; and w^hen they thought there was any dan- 
ger of an interview between them they locked her in. Jo- 
nas and Mary, however, were not to be baffled by grates 
and locks. Jonas took opportunities, when the cold night 
wind blew and the pelting storm raged, when no listener 
could overhear their soft whisperings, to place himself 
beneath her grated window and there enjoy sweet com- 
munion w^ith his beloved Mary. Their intercourse was 
soon discovered, however, by the vigilant and chagrined 
parents. The next expedient resorted to w^as to place her 
in some secluded spot under the care of some watchful 
and faithful guardian. Chocksett, now called Sterling, 
then a frontier settlement, although adjoining to Groton, 
was chosen as the place of her seclusion. Jonas searched 
the country around and made diligent inquiry to find the 
place of her banishment for some time, in vain. At 
length, being one day in the wilds of Chocksett, he made 
his usual inquiry of some young men he saw if they had 
any pretty girls in their neighborhood. They told him 
there was to be a quilting that very day, where all their 
girls would be; that they were going in the evening to 
dance with them, and invited him to accompany them, 
where he might see for himself. He very cheerfully accepted 
the invitation, and on arriving at the cottage where the 
seamstresses of the settlement were assembled, whom 
should he there find but his beloved Mary Loker. This 



104 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

was indeed to them a happy adA-enture. Concealing as 
well as they could their former acquaintance, they took 
opportunities to be partners in the dtince and made assign- 
ments for future meetings. Having thus fortunately dis- 
covered the place of banishment, he renewed his visits, till 
her parents, finding it out, took her home. She was then 
sternly told that she must reject the blacksmith and 
receive the addresses of the lawyer. She resolutely replied, 
"I will never marry an3' one but Jonas Prescott." The 
rejoinder was, "Then you shall never have a farthing of 
our property." To this there was a general demurrer; a 
decree for marriage without dowry followed. The con- 
summation took place before even the most common uten- 
sils for housekeeping could be procured. (Perhaps there 
was some delay to see if the old folks would not relent 
and procure or provide some.) The tradition asserts that 
her only implement for boiling was a two-quart kettle, 
and her washtub the shell of a large pumpkin. From this 
affectionate and happ}' pair sprung the doctors, warriors, 
civilians, statesmen, jurists, historians, etc., noticed in 
this genealogical record and memoir, wMth numerous other 
descendants, of whom Mary lived to see one hundred and 
seventy-five. 

Issue of Jonas (112-ix.) and Mar3' (Loker) Prescott: 

i. Mary, b. Feb. 3, 1674; iti. Benjamin Farnsworth about 1695. 
ii. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 23, 1676; m. 1694-5, Eleazer, son of Wil- 
liam and Mary Green, b. May 20, 1672. 
114— iii. Jonas, b. Oct. 26, 1678. 

iv. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 21, 1680; d. Jan. 29, 1681. 

V. Dorothy, 1>. Feb. 16, 1681; m. Nov. 15, 1700, John Varnuni 

of Dracut. 
vi. James, b. March 16, 1684; d. young, 
vii. Sarah, b. May 3, 1686; m. 1705, John Longley, b. 1683. She 

d. March 8, 1716, leaving four children, 
viii. Abigail, b May 8, 1688; m. 1711, James, son of Samuel 

Parker and Abigail Lakin, b. April 28, 1686. 
ix. Martha, b. Feb. 20, 1690; m. 1714. Shubael Robert, son of 

Rev. Gershom Hobert. Resided in Groton. 
.X. Susannah, b. Dec. 31, 1691; m. June 27, 1722, William, son 

of John Lawrence and Anne Tarbell, b. Dec. 31, 1697 

Resided at Groton. 



of the John Loive Family Circle. 105 

xi. Deborah, b. March 5. 1694; ni. 1714, Samuel Parker, b. 

about 1690. Resided in Groton. 
xii. Hon. Benjamin, b. Jan. 4, 1696; m. June 11, 1718, Abigail, 

dau. of Hon. Thomas Oliver of Cambridge, b. in 1697. 

Resided in Groton. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

113-x. Nathaniel Sawyer, born Nov. 24, 1670; mar- 
ried Mar}^ Houghton (?), and is the ancestor of Mary 
Sawyer, who married Joseph Lowe (15-ii.). 



114-iii. Jonas (121-i.), born Oct. 26, 1678; married, 
Oct. 15, 1699, Thankful Wheeler of Concord. He Hved at 
Forge Village, which since 1730 has been included in 
Westford. He enlarged and improved the works on Stony 
Brook which his father had established, by erecting addi- 
tional forges for manufacturing iron from the ore, as well 
as for other purposes. Upon the petition of himself and 
others, a part of Groton, including Forge Village, was in 
1730 set off from Groton to Westford. The water privi- 
lege and works on Stony Brook at Forge Village have, 
ever since their purchase of the land from Andrew, the 
Indian, been owned, held and occupied by the Prescott 
family. Jonas, Jr., was captain of militia, justice of the 
peace, as his father had been before him, and represented 
the town in the general court in 1720. His wife died 
Nov. 1, 1716, and he married, for a second wife, Mar3^ 
Page, April 30, 1718, born 1687. He died Sept. 12, 
1750. His widow, Mary, died July 19, 1781, aged 94. 

Issue of Jonas, Jr. (114-iii.), and Thankful (Wheeler) 
Prescott : 

i. Ebenezer, b. July 19, 1700; m. May 24, 1721, Hannah 

Farnsworth. 
ii. Jonas, b. Jan. 26, 1703; m. 1st, April 30, 1726. Ehzabeth 

Spalding. She d. Dec. 27, 1729. 
iii. Thankful, b. Sept. 17, 1705; m. 1727-28, Timothy Spalding. 
115— iv. Mary, b. April 29, 1711. 



106 The Ancestors and Their Descendants. 

V. Sarah, b Dec. 5, 1712; m. March 7, 1732, Dea. Samuel, 
son of James and Rebecca (Wheeler) Minot, b. March 25, 
1706. 

vi. Dorcas, b. 1714; m. 1738, Dea. Samuel Minot, who had m. 
for his first wife her sister Sarah. She d. June 6, 1803, 
aged 89 yrs., 2 mos., 15 days. He d. March 17, 1766, 
aged 60. Resided at Concord, Mass. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

115-iv. Mary Prescott, b. April 29, 1711 ; m. May 
9, 1728, Joseph Stone, probabh' a son of Dea. Simon Stone. 
Resided in Groton. He d. Sept. 10, aged 75; she d. April 
5, 1793, aged 82, wanting 22 days. Seven sons and five 
daughters. 



CHAPTER X. 

Ancestors of Louisa Adeline Messinger, Wife of 
David Lowe.— The Messinger Family. 

117-i. Thomas Messinger, born 1740; lived in Wren- 
tham, Mass.; married Olive Ware Jan, 12, 1764, and died 
Sept. 10, 1816. They came to Fitchburg and settled on 
Pearl Hill, building the house now owned by George Mes- 
senger, son of Horace and Sarah (Hartwell) Messinger, 
who is the only descendant bearing the name now living. 

Issue of Thomas (117-i.) and Olive (Ware) Messinger: 

118— i. Calvin, b. April 14, 1776. 

ii. Nancy, m. Ezra Fisher and moved to Grafton, Vt. They took 
their wedding journey on horseback, carrying with them 
a bag of rye with which to commence farming, and settled 
a new home. 

iii. SrsAN, m. David Bancroft and also lived in Grafton, Vt., keep- 
ing a store there. She died at the age of seventy-six j^ears. 

iv. Olive, m. Jeremiah Kinsman and lived on the west side of 
Pearl Hill, near the home of Artemas Andrews ; their 
daughter married Stephen Lowe (45-iv.), a brother of Da- 
vid (46-viii.). 

V. Elias, m. Rachel Putnam and lived in the original Putnam 
house, just back of or very near the house now owned and 
occupied by James Edward Putnam. 

vi. John, m. his cousin. 

vii, Timothy, lived in Boston, but died a bachelor in Fitchburg. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

118-i. Calvin, born April 14, 1776; married, Jan. 1, 
1801, Betsey Phillips, born Dec. 13, 1778; he died Nov. 
11, 1819; she died July 1, 1863; they remained on the 
old homestead, where both died, and are buried in Laurel 
Hill cemeter3\ He was a shoemaker. 



108 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Issue of Calvin (118-i.) and Betsey (Phillips) Messin- 
ger: 

119— i. Louisa Adeline, b. Oct. 1, 1801. 

120— ii. Horace P.. b. April 16, 1803. 

iii. Calvin, b. Jan. 1, 1805; d. Oct. 8, 1825. 

iv. Betsey, b. Jan. 21, 1806; m. Joseph Upton (19-i.); d. Dec. 

25, 1864, from paraWsis. 
V. Lydia, b. June 11, 1809; ni. 1st, Samuel Hawes, May 6, 1830, 
who d. Oct. 18, 1875; 2d, Rev. John Wood, Aug. 14, 1879. 
She married very soon after she was twenty-one years old, 
when Samuel Hawes was a widower of past forty, and 
when asked about the age of his girl wife he would say, 
"She is of age, ask her." A very active woman, and until 
more than eighty j-ears old she used to say she did not 
know what it was to be tired. At the age of eighty-four, 
Nov., 1893. while crossing the street to invite Mary 
(Lowe) (iv.) Childs to Thanksgiving dinner, she fell and 
liroke her left hip, from which she never fully recovered, 
although she did recovej enough to attend church and go 
about some. She is still living, Jan., 1901. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

119-i. Louisa Adeline, born Oct. 1, 1801; married, 
Jan. 28, 1822, David Lowe (42-v.) and is the grand- 
mother of our "Circle." Her girlhood was one of hard- 
ship, as she used to say she never had any play time 
until she was seventy years old, but she made the very 
best of her opportunities, studying and reading whenever 
she could. When young she went into the woolen mill 
which stood where the Parkhill Mill (B) now stands, 
working not less than sixteen hours per day. At the age 
of twenty she married and went to keeping house on Me- 
chanic street. Her married life was full of such struggles 
and trials as a family of eleven children must have 
brought with them, but through them all her Christian 
fortitude sustained her; and though she gave back to 
God five of her little ones and two in their early man- 
hood, her faith never grew dim, but she looked forward 
to a happy reunion. Her place in church was always 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 109 

filled, and as a Sabbath school teacher for forty years she 

was absent onl3' when sickness compelled. ^ 

Ellen. 

She was a rare woman in many ways, more than an 
ordinary student for those early times. It was said of 
her at one time that she knew more of the Bible and Bi- 
ble history than any other woman in Fitchburg. She died 
suddenly, being found dead in her room on the morning 
of March 23, 1886. 

GRANDMOTHER. 

Just as the sun was blushing red 
Over the hilltops, somebody said, 
In broken accents of mourning woe. 
Sobbing aloud, but sobbing low, 
"Grandmother is dead." 

Only yesterday how she planned 
Labors of love for her aged hands ; 
" Whenever my useful days are o'er. 
Let me go to the Heavenly shore," 
Was her demand. 

Dear old grandmother! How her prayer 

Quickened the Ear of Eternal Care! 

.\nd with only a warning pain 

Her Angel gathered her soul again 

To the regions fair. 

Edna. 



r^O-ii. Horace P., born April 16, 1803; married, 
Jan. 20, 1831, Sarah Winch Hartwell; born April 23, 
1811; he died Aug. 15, 1874, of heart disease; he built 
an addition to his mother's home and lived and died 
there. His wife died Aug. 19, 1889, leaving one son, 
George Edward Messenger, who was born Sept. 23, 1847, 
and married, Jan. 10, 1883, Lauretta Lucetta Wellington, 
born Jan. 8, 1856. When he was young he was taught by 
his parents to spell his name Messinger. When he went to 
school, a teacher (Mary Lowe Dickinson) insisted he was 
wrong, and so for forty years he has substituted e for i. 



110 TJic Ancestors and Their Descoidants 



The Phillips Family. 

Our record begins with Blaney Phillips, who was born 
in Pembroke Feb. 12, 1712; married, May 23, 1733, 
Christian Wadsworth, who was born Feb. 5, 1713; he 
died Dec. 21, 1800; she died Oct. 6, 1798; he was buried 
in that part of Pembroke, Plymouth county, which is 
now Hanson, where his headstone can be seen at any 
time. They had a family of nine children. There was a 
Rev. George Phillips who came to New England in the 
same fleet with Gov. Winthrop and was admitted as free- 
man in 1639, and it may be that Blaney was one of his 
descendants. 

Of the nine children of Blaney (120-i.) and Christian, 
Seth (121-vi.), the third son and sixth child, born Sept. 
25, 1749, married Betsey Hamlin (123) in 1775; she died 
Nov. 20, 1813; he died Aug. 8, 1828. 

In 1775 Seth Phillips (121-vi.) bought a farm of 21% 
acres of hind adjoining his father's property, for which he 
paid £95, 13s., 4d., lawful money. At the time of the 
war of the Revolution he lived in his native town of 
Pembroke, in PWmouth count}'. His home was in that 
part of Pembroke which is now Hanson. Soon after the 
close of the war he married and moved onto a farm in 
what is now called West P'itchburg. 

His name is in the list of minute men as Sergeant Phil- 
lips. A partial copy of his record of the daih' doings of 
the regiment, dated Feb. 18, 1776, also a list of the men 
of his company, are at present in Mrs. John Lowe's pos- 
session. May, 1776, he received from the Council of Mas- 
sachusetts Bay the commission of second lieutenant, which 
now hangs in the relic room of the Wallace Librar}- at 
Fitchburg. In July, 1780, he, with ten other Fitchburg 
men, enlisted in the Continental army for six months. He 
was discharged in December of the same year, making his 
term of service five months and ten days, for which he 
received £10, 13s., 4d., including travel for 200 miles. He 
was described as thirty j^ears of age, five feet and eight 
inches in height, and light complexion. He died from an 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. Ill 

injury to his great toe, which caused mortification, at the 
home of his oldest daughter, Betsey (PhilHps) Messinger, 
where he had been Hving for some years. 

123-i. Betsey Phillips, daughter of Seth (121-vi.) 
and Betsey (HamHn) (123-ii.) PhilHps, was a great-grand- 
mother of our family. She married, Jan. 1, 1801, Calvin 
Messinger, who lived only twelve short years after their 
marriage, and left his widow with five small children, of 
whom our grandmother, Louisa Adeline, was the oldest. 
She kept the old homestead and struggled bravely through 
the hardships of bringing up her little family, all of whom 
had to begin in early life to assist in the support of the 
whole, and all lived to old age except one son, Calvin, 
who died Oct. 8, 1825, about twenty years of age. 

I used to enjoy grandmother telling me of her riding 
to church on horseback, on a pillion, behind her husband, 
in her sky-blue riding habit. She was a woman strong 
in every way, and won many friends. She became per- 
fectly helpless for three years, and one evening quietl}^ left 
us, at the age of eighty-five years. Her husband's father 
and also her own father died while living with her. 

The Hamlin Family. 

James Hamlin of London, Eng., came to America in 
the early part of 1639 with his wife and two children, 
James, born April 10, 1636, and Mary, and first settled 
in Barnstable. A son of James was Eleazer, a son of 
Eleazer was Benjamin, who was born 1692; married, Oct. 
26, 1716, Annie, daughter of Samuel Ma3'o of Eastham. 
Benjamin was killed on a whaling vessel July, 1737. 

Of their children, Eleazer, born July, 1731 ; married, 
first, Lydia Bonney of Pembroke in 1752, and had eleven 
children; she died Aug. 12, 1769; he married, second, a 
widows Mrs. Sarah Bryant, whose maiden name was Sob- 
del, by whom he had six children. She died Nov. 15, 
1788, in the fort3'-fifth year of her age. For a third wife 
he married, June 3, 1789, another widow, Mrs. Hannah 
Fletcher of Westford, by Rev. Matthew Scribner. He had 
large means and was a man of great energy. In 1777 he 



112 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

moved from Pembroke to Harvard and purchased a farm 
of Aaron Davis of one hundred and twenty -eight (128) 
acres, including a potash works situated in the northern 
part of the town, and soon became influential in town 
councils. After the death of his second wife he sold his 
farm and removed to Westford, where he died Dec. 1, 
1807, aged seventy-five years and five months, and is 
buried by the side of his son Green in the East burying- 
ground in Westford. His tombstone gives his age as 
above, and the same record is found in the Bible of his 
son Asia. He was a captain in the Revolutionary arrav, 
and is said to have been a member of the Cincinnati. 
Because of his large family at home, he retired from the 
army with the rank of Major. When bidding farewell to 
Gen. Washington, the general gave him $200, continental 
money. After the war he was captain in the militia, in 
which seven of his sons are said to have been members. 
Issue of Eleazer and Lydia (Bonney) Hamlin: 

i. Asia, died young. 
123— ii. Betty. 

By his second wife, Mrs. Sarah Bryant, he had Sally, 
Isaac, Asia, who died ; Green and George. 

l*^3-ii. Betty Hamlin, married Seth Phillips (121- 
vi.). Alice, Africa, Europe and America were in the Revo- 
lutionary army; Lydia, Alolly, Eleazer, Cyrus and Hanni- 
bal were twins. 

Issue of Betty (HamHn) (123-ii.) and Seth PhilHps 
(121-vi.): 

122— i. Betsey, b. Dec. 13, 1778. 

ii. Samuel, ni. Sally Thurston; children were Col. Ivors and Sallv. 
iii. Seth. 

iv. Asia, m. Sally Dwelly of Hanson. 
V. John. 
vi. Thomas. 

vii. Lydia, m. Jacob Fairbanks; settled in Ashburnham; two of 
their children, :\Irs. Ardeha Smith and Jacob Horatio Fair- 
banks, are now residents of this city. 

l*4*4-i. Betsey Phillips, born Dec. 13, 1778; mar- 
ried, Jan. 1, 1801, Calvin Messinger (118-i.). 






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CHAPTER XI. 

Ancestors of Sarah Mead. 

The coat of arms attached to the original name of 
Mead— Mead of London— is thus described : The field is 
sable, a chevron between three pelicans or. The Egyp- 
tians used the pelicans as hieroglyphics of the four duties 
of a father to his children, viz.: Generation, education, 
instruction and good example. 

Our information concerning the first generations of the 
Mead family in America is mainly obtained from the his- 
tories of Dorchester and Lexington. The latter says that 
there is considerable difiiculty in tracing the Meads. The 
first of the name appear to be migratory and are found 
in different places. Savage informs us that Gabriel Mead 
of Dorchester was made freeman in 1635, and died 1666, 
aged 79 ; that his will mentions several daughters, and 
that he had a son Israel, born 1639, who lived in Water- 
town, moved to Dedham, and perhaps to Woburn. Israel, 
probably son of the preceding, is sometimes spoken of as 
of Woburn, and sometimes as of Cambridge, but it is 
undoubtedly the same person, and from him the Lexing- 
ton Meads in part descended. 

123-i. 'Gabriel Mead. From the history of Dorches- 
ter we learn that Gabriel Mead, called Goodman Mead, 
was in the list of the second emigration from Europe in 
1635, and that he was possibly in Dorchester as early as 
1636; was freeman May 2, 1638. His wife was *Su- 
sanna. His son Israel was born in 1637. Israel removed 

*James Bates, who was born in 1582 and lived in Dorchester, left 
the wife of Gabriel Mead (whose name was Johanna) £20. She may- 
have been a daughter of James Bates. 

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114 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

to Watertown, but returned to Dorchester and joined the 
church there June 16, 1674. His father left him the house 
he lived in, in Dorchester. To his son David he left the 
old house. He owned land near the burying place, and 
the church records say it appears he lived near where Mr. 
Foster's malt house stood. He died March 12, 1666, aged 
about 79, 

The first report of disbursements made by the town 
is under date of the year 1654. The amount assessed was 
£40, 14s., lid., for the town and castle. 

. . . . Item. For driving up and setting down, and for keeping of 
the corn that was with Goodman Mead 9s. Od. 

In 1662 Goodman Mead had charge of the meeting 
house in Dorchester, attended to the bell ringing, cleaning, 
etc., and there not being sufficient cash in the treasury to 
pay him the three pounds due for that service the present 
year, Mr. Patten agreed to pay him twenty-six shillings 
and eight pence, and Ens. Foster the rest, both to be 
allowed the same out of the next town rate. 

The names of Israel Meed and Gabriel Mede appear 
signed to a petition from the town in 1664 to 

the Honrd. Gournr, the Deputy Gournr, together with the rest of the 
honord magistrates & house of Deputyes. Assembled in Generall Court 
at Boston this nineteenth day of October, 1664. 

In the account of monej^ paid in 1667 b^^ the town is: 
"To Widows Mead, for ringing the bell, £3." 



SECOND GENERATION. 

1^4-i. Israel Mead, according to the Dorchester 
history, was born in 1637; his name appears in a list of 
those who lived in the town, and who had reached the 
age of twenty-one years, up to the year 1700. According 
to the Lexington history Israel Mead, sometimes of Cam- 
bridge, was born in 1639, and married Feb. 26, 1669, 
Mary Hall, daughter of Widow Mary Hall. He was 
appointed in Cambridge, in 1683, "viewer of wood." 
Whether he resided at that time in the old town or at the 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 115 

Farms, we are unable to say; but in 1693 when the North 
precinct was organized, he must have been within its ter- 
ritory, as he was taxed for ministerial land purchased at 
that time. The same tax bill bears the name of his son, 
Thomas Mead. Israel Mead was one of the original mem- 
bers of the church organized 1696, Thomas was admitted 
1699, and his wife, Hasaniah, was admitted in August of 
the same year. During the same season two of Thomas' 
children, Hannah and Sarah, were baptized. The record 
of Israel's wife's death is among the first of the obituaries 
on the parish records, being Sept. 1, 1692. Israel was one 
of the committee to seat the gallery of the meeting house 
in 1700. He died Sept. 6, 1714. His will, dated April 
2, 1713, and proved Sept. 20, 1714, mentions particularly 
sons Thomas, John, Stephen, and Ebenezer, and daughters 
Margaret Locke, Mary, and Ruth. He also makes a be- 
quest to four grandchildren, — the oldest child of Thomas, 
John, Stephen, and Margaret Locke. He also remembers 
his faithful spiritual teacher. "I give to Mr. John Han- 
cock the reverend pastor of the church of Christ, in Lex- 
ington, twenty shillings." He served in King Philip's 
war in 1676. 

Issue of Israel (124-i.) and Mary (Hall) Mead: 

125— i. Thomas, b. about 1670. 

ii. John, b. about 1672. 

Hi. Hannah, b. about 1674; d. Jan. 28, 1702. 

iv. Margaret, b. Jan. 20, 1676 ; m. Joseph Locke as his second 

wife. 

V. Stephen, b. about 1679; hved and died in Concord, 

vi. Mary, b. Feb. 10, 1682. 

vii. Ruth, b. Aug. 10, 1684; probably d. Nov. 3, 1726, unmarried. 

viii. Ebenezer, b. May 11, 1686. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

135-i. Thomas Mead, born about 1670; married 
Hasaniah Gates. He was in the North precinct in 1693, 
and he and his wife were admitted to the church in 1699. 
In 1700, when they "seated the meeting house," he had a 



116 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

seat assigned him in the "front side gallery." He was 
constable in 1704 and in 1714. It is doubtful whether 
an}^ of his sons, except Israel and Cornelius, lived perma- 
nently in Lexington, as we do not find their names upon 
the tax bills extant. 

Issue of Thomas (125-i.) and Hasaniah (Gates) Mead: 

i. Hannah, bap. May 8, 1699; d. 1723. 

ii. Sarah, bap. May 8, 1699. 

iii. Thomas, bap. Sept., 1700; probably went to Littleton. 

iv. Jonathan, bap. Sept. 6. 1702. 

V. Israel, bap. Aug. 16. 1704- ; m. Sarah . 

126— vi. Samuel, bap. May 3, 1706. 

vii. Mary, bap. Mar. 3, 1709. 

viii. James, bap. Apr. 8, 1711. 

ix. Cornelius, bap. June 3, 1714; m. Hannah Hadley. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

Vi,i\-\\. Samuel Mead, born May 3, 1706, married 
Oct. 12, 1748, Hannah Willard, who was baptized May 
17, 1724. He was admitted to the church in 1742, and 
dismissed to the church in Harvard, July 1, 1744, where 
he resided and had a family. The gravestones of himself 
and wife, which can be seen in the old cemetery in Har- 
vard, bear these inscriptions: " Dea. Samuel Mead, who 
died June 1, 1814, age 90 years, 5 months. His wife, 
Hannah, died Sept. 23, 1808, age 85 3'ears, 7 months."^ 
He was a cordwainer, and in 1727 bought of Daniel 
Wetherbee sixty acres of land bounded north by the 
Groton line, adj'oining the land of Jonathan Rand and 
west of it. He was one of the first to sign the church 
covenant in 1733. November 16, 1775, he was elected 
deacon with Richard Harris, Jr., and "Dec. 5, 1795, was 
invited with other deacons for acceptable service, to occupy 
a seat in the Elder's pew on our Lord's day and on other 
days of public worship, as a token of our gratitude and 
respect for having used the office of a deacon well." He 
was a member of Col. Whitcomb's battalion from August 
to December of the j^ear 1755, a member of a company 
commanded by Israel Taylor, belonging to Col. Oliver 



of the John Lozve Family Circle. 117 

Wilder's regiment that marched on the alarm for the re- 
lief of Fort William Henry as far as Springfield (service 
Aug. 13 to Aug. 26, 1757). In the summer campaign of 
1758 he served as corporal in the regiment of Col. Jona- 
than Bagley and in the company of Capt. Salmon Whit- 
ney of Stovyr. He marched to Cambridge on the 19th of 
April, in consequence of an alarm, under command of Col. 
Asa Whitcomb, in the company v^hereof Joseph Fairbanks 
w^as captain. Property was much more evenly distributed 
than at the present day, and his name was among fifteen 
of the largest taxpayers. He was selectman in 1769, 
1771 and 1772. His wife, Hannah Willard, was a daugh- 
ter of James and Hannah (Houghton) Willard. Hannah 
Houghton was a daughter of Ralph Houghton, who was 
one of the early settlers of Lancaster and for many years 
town clerk. James Willard was the son of Henry and 
Dorcas (Cutler, daughter of James Cutler, who married 
the widow of Thomas King) Willard. Henry Willard 
married first Mary Lakin, and second Dorcas Cutler, and 
was the fourth son of Maj. Simon Willard, son of Richard 
of Horsemendon, Kent, England, who was born 1605, 
came to New England in 1634, with wife, Mary Sharp, 
and daughter, Mary, and settled in Concord. May, 1657, 
he was one of three commissioners to order the affairs of 
Lancaster, and took up his residence there in 1658, In 
1672 he removed to a five hundred acre grant of land in 
a part of Groton now in Ayer. He had before coming to 
Lancaster attained the highest military grade then recog- 
nized, that of sergeant-major, and was annually elected 
assistant from 1654 to his death, which took place sud- 
denly in Charlestown, April 24, 1676. He had for his 
second wife Eliza Dunster, who lived but a short time, 
when he married her sister. Much more can be learned of 
his exploits and service from the Annals of Lancaster, by 
Henry Nourse. 

Issue of Samuel (126-vi.) and Hannah (Willard) Mead, 
born in Harvard, Mass.: 

i. John, b. June 29, 1749. 
127— ii. Oliver, b. Sept. 2, 1751. 



118 The Ancestors and Their Descendants. 

iii. Hannah, b. Aug. 13, 1753, d. young. 

iv. Lucy, b. Jan. 15, 1756, d. unmarried. 

V. Lydia, b. Jan. 9, 1759. 

vi. Samuel, b. May 30, 1761 ; graduated from Harvard college, 
1787, studied divinity, and settled in Alstead, N. H. He 
d. in 1822. William O. Mead of Belmont, a broker in 
Boston, is a son of Rev. Samuel Mead. 

vii. Mercy, b. Feb. 15, 1767, m. JunaLliail E. Sawyer. A daugh- 
ter married Frost. W.<^^^/^^>^*-^ 



CHAPTER XII. 

Fifth Generation, and Descendants of Dea. Oliver 
Mead and Anna Whitney. 

127 -ii. Dea. Oliver Mead, born Sept. 2,1751; was 
married July 22, 1777, by Rev. Daniel Johnson, to Anna 
Whitney. They were both of Harvard, but when married 
established their home in Boxborough, where he became 
quite prominent in church and town affairs. He was in 
Capt. Jonathan Davis' muster roll in Col. John Whit- 
comb's regiment of minute men, who marched on the 
alarm of April 19, 1775, from Harvard thirty miles to Cam- 
bridge. He died in Boxborough, March 20, 1836. March 
26, the first Sabbath after his death. Rev. Jonathan Farr, 
A. M., a native of Harvard, preached two sermons in the 
First church of Boxborough. The first was on the death 
of the righteous, the other the l^irth of the Saviour, and 
was from a text selected by the deacon not long before he 
died. 

Issue of Oliver (127-ii.) and Anna (Whitney) Mead, 
born in Boxborough : 

i. Sarah, b. Dec. 19, 1778; m. Levi Houghton; d. July, 1844. 
They went to Lunenburg, Hved and died there. They had 
no children, but took Sarah Mead (150-iii.), daughter of 
Nathaniel, when she was ten years old, and she remained 
there until she was of age. 
ii. Lucy, b. Jan. 4, 1781, d. Feb. 19, 1861. 
128— iii. Anna, b. April 4, 1783. 
129— iv. Oliver, b. April 10, 1785. 
130— V. Abraham, b. July 9, 1787. 
131— vi. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 1, 1789. 

vii. Nabby, b. Dec. 16, 1791 ; m. Reuben Houghton ; d. Sept. 30, 
1860. 
132— viii. Samuel, b. March 3, 1794. 

ix. Hannah, b. June 13, 1796, d. 1804. 
133— X. Nathaniel, b. Oct. 30, 1798. 



120 TJic Ancestors and Their Descendants 



SIXTH GENERATION. 

128-iii. Anna Mead, born April 4, 1783, married 
William Stevens. She died Jan. 18, 1851. 

Issue of Anna (128-iii.) (Mead) and William Stevens: 

134— i. Anna, b. March 18, 1809. 

135— ii. Moses, b. Oct. 11, 1810. 

iii. Sophia, b. Julj' 29, 1813. 

iv. Susan, b. April 11, 1818. 

V. Oliver W., b. Julj' 11, 1820, d. unmarried. 

vi. Elizabeth, b. Ma}- 14. 1824, m. Appleton Barnard. 



129-iv. Oliver Mead, born April 10, 1785; mar- 
ried Oct. 4, 1791, Betsey Taylor. He died Nov. 2, 1869; 
she died Feb. 20, 1871, aged 80 years, 4 months, 16 dnys. 

Issue of Oliver. (129-iv.) and Betsey (Taylor) Mead: 

i. Oliver, b. July 9, 1809, was killed by an accident, Sept. 9, 

1814. 
ii. Nathaniel, b. Jan. 18, 1812; d. May 7, 1816. 
iii. Betsey, b. Nov. 10, 1815; m. Peter Whitcomb, had one son, 
who died. Mr. Peter Whitcomb is dead also. They lived in 
Boxborough. 
iv. Anna, b. June 23, 1817; d. Aug. 14, 1824, of scarlet fever. 
V, Sally, b. Aug. 12, 1820; m. April 9, 1848, George Hagar. 
He d. March 9, 1893, aged 78. They settled in Boxbor- 
ough, afterwards moved to West Acton, where he d. and 
she still lives. 
136— vi. Oliver, b. Jan. 18, 1823. 
137— vii. Lyman, b. June 14, 1825. 
138— viii. Emory, b. June 14, 1829. 
139— ix. Walter, b. Jan. 27, 1832. 

X. Anna, b Jan. 19, 1834; married William Moore; their home 
is the Bigelow place, in the center of Boxborough. No 
children. 



130-V. Abraham Mead, born July 9, 1787; married, 
first, Nov. 18, 1813, Lucy Kimball, born Sept. 21, 1789; 
she died June 16, 1821; married, second, Aug. 8, 1822, 
Sally Sherwin, who died March 30, 1860. They lived and 
died in Littleton, Mass. 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 121 

Issue of Abraham (130-v.) and Lucy (Kimball) Mead: 

i. Lucy Kimball, b. Sept. 21, 1814; d. Dec. 14, 1844. 
140— ii. Annie Whitney, h. July 29, 1816. 

iii. Abraham, b. April 5, 1818; m. Sept. 10, 1845, Miss Battles, 
b. March 11, 1821. He d. Dec. 22, 1894. He was a law- 
yer; had two sons, Frank W. and Charles. 
141— iv. Franklin, b. July 10, 1820. 

Issue by second wife, Sally Sherwin: 

V. Hannah, b. April 29, 1823; d. unmarried. 

vi. George, b. Aug. 24, 1824. 

vii. Sherman, b. Nov. 21, 1827. ' 

viii. James, b. May 6, 1829. 



131-vi. Elizabeth Mead, born Sept. 1, 1789; mar- 
ried Reuben Houghton; she died Sept. 23, 1856. He was 
born Sept. 10, 1784. Her sister Nabby, born Dec. 16, 
1791, married him after her death, and Nabby died Sept. 
30, 1860. They lived in Littleton, where he had a store. 

Issue of Elizabeth (131-vi.) (Mead) and Reuben Hough- 
ton : 

i. Reuben Newell, d. in consumption when a young man. 
142— ii. William Stevens, b. June 20, 1816. 



133-viii. Samuel Mead, born March 3, 1794; mar- 
ried Betsey Stevens, who died July 2, 1823; married, sec- 
ond, her sister, Mary Stevens, who died Nov. 9, 1856; 
married again, Lucinda Conant, and fourth, Mrs. Randall. 
He was one of the first deacons of the Universalist church 
in Boxborough, where he lived. 

Issue of Samuel (132-viii.) and Betsey (Stevens) Mead: 

i. Elizabeth, b. July 25, 1819; d. Aug 9, 1894; m. Mr. Ines of 
Natick. 
143— ii. Franklin, b. May 25, 1821. 
144— iii. Benjamin Stevens, b. July 2, 1823. 

Issue by second wife, Mary Stevens: 
iv. Samuel, b. Oct. 15, 1826; d. Dec, 1858, in the West. 



122 The Ancestors and Their Descenda^its 

Issue \yy third wife, Lucinda Conant: 

145— V. Lucinda, b. July 22, 1828. 
146— vi. Albert, b. April 23, 1830. 
147— vii. Alfred, b. Feb. 10, 1832. 

viii. Abbie C, b. April 2, 1834; d. Jan. 27, 1897. 

ix. Anna Rebecca, b. Jan. 2, 1836; m. Charies Harding; lived a 
few years, and d. in April, 1860. 

X. Mary Stevens, b. June 6, 1840; d. 1846. 



133-x. Nathaniel Mead, born Oct. 30, 1798; mar- 
ried May 24, 1821, Lucy Taylor, who was born July 26, 
1801, and died Oct. 5, 1865; he died July 9, 1852. He 
was one of the foremost in all reforms, being one of the 
leaders in starting the Universalist societ}^ in Acton, the 
first meetings being held about half-wa}- between West 
Acton and Acton Center, in a hall. He was leader of the 
choir and also plaA'cd a bass viol. A shoemaker b3^ trade, 
and carried on a farm, which he purchased when married, 
and where he died. His widow remained there until a 
short time before her death, when she moved to West Ac- 
ton that she might be near her children. 

"They were the parents of eight children, to whom they 
were wholl3^ devoted. All the advantages of that time 
w^ere given them ; common, singing, dancing, and spelling 
school, as well as lyceum and academy, were among the 
advantages. Mrs. Mead was a school teacher and all but 
one of their children taught school, and many of their 
grandchildren. Mr. Mead was an earnest and conscientious 
student of the Bible. A clergyman said of him : 'Mr. Mead 
seems to know the Bible from beginning to end ; he will 
quote passage after passage, to prove any statement, 
readily and correctly.' He had the rare power in argu- 
ment of convincing his opponent and retaining his esteem 
and respect also." Hls Daughter Maria. 

Issue of Nathaniel (133-x.) and Lucy (Taylor) Mead: 

148— i. Adelbert, b. Jan. 10, 1822. 

149— ii. Oliver Warren, b. Oct. 19, 1823. 

150— iii. Sarah, b. Aug. 22, 1825. 

151— iv. Maria, b. Sept. 7, 1827. 



of the John Loive Family Circle. 123 

V. Mary, b. June. 1829; m. Nov. 3, 1850, John Johnson Lothrop, 
of West Acton, as his second wife. They lived in South 
Acton until they went to San Francisco, sailing from Bos- 
ton Feb. 17, 1852, around Cape Horn, reaching there July 
3, 1852. Mary taught a private school for two or three 
years. Mr. Lothrop was a blacksmith by trade, at which 
he worked for several years, and then went into other busi- 
ness. He died March 10, 1886. His widow returned East, 
reaching here Sept. 16, 1886, but on account of asthma 
spends most of her time in Florida. 

152— vi. Anna Betsey, b. Jan. 1, 1831. 

153— vii. Varnum Balfour, b. Oct. 16, 1832. 

154— viii. Frances Adelaide, b. Sept. 30, 1842. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 

134-i. Anna Stevens, born March 18, 1809; married 
George Conant and lived in Lunenburg. 

Issue of Anna (134-i.) (Stevens) and George Conant: 

i. Abbie a., b. May 3, 1830; m. George G. Winch, May 25, 

1871; d. April 5, 1886. 

ii. George, b. April 30, 1831; d. Jan. 31, 1834. 

iii. Sarah S., b. Dec. 2, 1833. 

iv. Mary I., b. Dec. 6, 1835. 

V. Frances S., 1). July 6, 1838; d. Jan., 1844. 

vi. Susan E., b. Feb. 15, 1841 ; d. Oct. 29, 1865. 

vii. Harriet M., b. July 2, 1848. 



135-ii. Moses Stevens, born Oct. 11, 1810; mar- 
ried Nov. 30, 1837, Maria Stearns, born July 2, 1810; 
died Nov. 9, 1870; he died Nov. 13, 1881. They lived on 
a farm in Stow, Mass., now owned by their son Francis. 

Issue of Moses (135-ii.) and Maria (Stearns) Stevens: 

155— i. Francis Henry, b. June 11, 1839. 
156— ii. Ann Maria, b. Sept. 20, 1840. 
157— iii. Ellen Sophia, b. Nov. 29, 1843. 
158— iv. William Edwin, b. April 2, 1846. 

v. George Lyman, b. May 6, 1848; m. Jan. 1, 1870, Annie M. 
Lincoln; m. second, Myra Whitcomb. 



124 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

136-\i. Oliver Mead, born Jan. 18, 1823; married 
Caroline Wetherbee and lived in Boxborough. They had 
but one child, Sadie Anna Betsey, who married Alfred 
Brown, and died from consumption, leaving no children. 



137 -vii. Lyman Mead, born June 14, 1825; married 
May 2, 1854, Melissa Willis of Harvard. He worked for 
his father until twenty-one years of age, and then learned 
the trade of carriage making of James Brown of Stow, 
working five j'cars. After this he lived in Boxborough, 
working at his trade and carrying on the store, and had 
been postmaster for twent^'-five years when he retired 
from business and moved to West Acton, where he now 
resides. 

Issue of Lyman (137-vii.) and Melissa (Willis) Mead: 

159— i. Lyman Willis, b. March 11, 1855. 
160— ii. Emma Melissa, b. June 19, 1859. 



138-viii. Emory Mead, born June 14, 1829; mar- 
ried March 18, 1855, Eliza Clement; Hved in Boxbor- 
ough. 

Issue of Emory (138-viii.) and EHza (Clement) Mead: 

161— i. Anna Frances, b. Aug. 4, 1860. 



139-ix. Walter Mead, born in Boxborough June 
27, 1832; married in Stow, June 3, 1855, EHza Jane 
Chandler of Portland, Me., who was born May 30, 1832, 
and lived on the Mead estate, where his father and grand- 
father lived before him. He now resides in West Acton. 

Issue of Walter (139-ix.) and Eliza Jane (Chandler) 
Mead: 

162— i. Charles Henry, b. Feb. 24, 1857. 

ii. Cora Elzina, b. June 3, 1864, died Feb. 6, 1865. 

iii. Arthur Edwin, b. Aug. 21, 1869; was drowned in Charles 
river, Waltham, Mass., June 19, 1893. 
163— iv. Ada Blanche, b. in Boxborough, Oct. 26, 1872. 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 125 

140-ii. Annie Whitney Mead, born July 29, 1816; 
married May 4, 1836, Levi Conant. She died Feb. 15, 
1873. 

Issue of Annie Whitney (140-ii.) (Mead) and Levi 
Conant: 

i. Benjamin, b. July 28, 1837, in Dublin, N. H. 

ii. Sherman, b. Dec. 23, 1839, in Du1)lin, N. H.; d. Nov. 24, 1890. 

iii. Henry, b. Dec. 18, 1842, in Dublin, N. H.; d. May 17, 1848. 

iv. Ellen Sherwin, b. July 19, 1846, in Littleton, Mass. 

V. Anna Jane, b. Nov. 16, 1848, in Littleton, Mass. 

vi. Amelia Breck, b. July 11, 1851, in Littleton, Mass. 

vii. George Arthur, b. March 31, 1854, d. Oct. 26, 1883. 

viii. Levi Seward, b. March 3, 1857, Littleton, Mass. 

ix. Elmer Kimball, b. June 30, 1862. 

141-iv. Franklin Mead, born July 10, 1820; mar- 
ried Oct. 3, 1844, Mahitable Ray Moar, who v^as born 
September, 1819, and died Jan. 30, 1879. She was the 
mother of his child. He married, second, May 7, 1882, 
Mrs. Edith Masten of South Schodack, N. Y. He Hved in 
Littleton, working as farmer and shoemaker until April 1, 
1841, having received only a common school education. 
During the winter of 1838-39 the current of his religious 
life was changed through the effects upon his father's 
family of a religious or protracted meeting held in Little- 
ton, under the direction of Rev. Oliver Ayer, assisted by 
Mr. Miller (the father of the Millerite doctrine). He went 
to Lowell in April, 1841, and commenced the practice of 
civil engineering, making a survey and map of the cities 
of Lowell and Nashua, N. H.; also, in the winter of 
1842-43 published the first directory of Nashua. In 1847 
and 1848 he was a member of the common council of 
Lowell. He followed this profession in various locations 
until 1881, and since that time has been engaged in sur- 
veying for steam and electric railroads ; president of seven 
different roads; is now of two. He w^as with Sherman's 
army at Goldsboro and went with him to Raleigh, N. C. 

issue of Franklin (141-iv.) and Mahitable Ray (Moar) 
Mead : 

i. Ivo, b. Dec. 12, 1847, in Lowell, Mass.; he ra. Dec. 18, 1872, 
Frances E. Gleason. 



126 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

143-ii. William Stevens Houghton, born June 20, 
1816; married April 12, 1849, Abbie Frances Goodridge; 
married, second, May 19, 1859, Sarah Jane Topliff. He 
was a successful merchant in Boston, and gave $10,000 
for a library building in Littleton, Mass. Both Mr. 
Houghton and his wife were trustees of Wellesley college, 
to which they had contributed largely, and were active 
in religious work. They had two sons. 

143-ii. Franklin Mead, born in Boxborough, May 
25, 1821, married Nov. 29, 1849, Nancy Staples Morse, 
of Mason. She was born July 11, 1820, and died June 22, 
1893. They lived on a farm in Lunenburg, where he died 
from injuries received from the fall of a tree Jan. 31, 1871. 
Their two children are still living on the farm. 

Issue of Franklin (143-ii.) and Nancy Staples (Morse) 
Mead : 

i. Herbert Oscar, b. Aug. 19, 1852. 
ii. MiRA Lizzie, b. July 23, 1854. 

144-111. Benjamin Stevens Mead, born July 2, 1823, 
married Sept. 19, 1847, Rebecca Louisa Burgess. His 
mother died the day of his birth. He lived on his father's 
farm most of the time until 1881, when he bought a place 
in the center of the tow^n, where he lived fourteen 3^ears, 
then sold and moved to Ayer, where he now lives. He 
was a selectman, assessor, and overseer of the poor most 
of the time while he lived in Boxborough. He was a mem- 
ber of the Orthodox church. 

Issue of Benjamin Stevens (144-iii.) and Rebecca Louisa 
(Burgess) Mead : 

164— i. Edgar Clarence, b. July 18, 1850. 

ii. Ermina Louisa, b. March 29, 1858; m. May 8, 1879, George 
F. Kingsbury. They reside in Ayer, where she takes an 
active part in church work, especially singing. 

. 145 -V. Lucinda Mead, born Julj^ 22, 1828, married 
Nov. 24, 1850, David C. Howe of Maine, born Dec. 29, 



of the John Loive Family Circle. 127 

1825, and lived in Natick. She died Feb. 15, 1898. He 
died May 19, 1892. 

Issue of Lucinda (145-v.) (Mead) and David C.Howe: 

i. Ella, b. Oct. 10, 1853; d. Aug. 27. 1880; ni. William M. 

Merrill, b. July 3, 1848, d. Aug. 14, 1879. 
ii. Charley, b. Dec. 2, 1858; d. Sept. 2, 1861. 
iii. Anna A., b. Aug. 5, 1863. 

146-vi. Albert Mead, b. April 23, 1830, married 
July 21, 1869, Alwilda Barbara Crocker, of Maine, born 
June 17, 1845. He was a successful shoe manufacturer in 
Natick; represented his town in legi.slature in 1888. He 
died Sept. 1, 1898. 

Issue of Albert (146-vi.) and Alwilda Barbara (Crocker) 
Mead: 

i. Albert Warren, b. Nov. 30, 1870. 

ii. Arthur Roscoe, b. March 21, 1874. 

165— iii. Sylvia A., b. Sept. 2, 1875. 

iv. Charles Harvey, b. July 23, 1879. 

V. Abby a., b. May 1, 1884. 

147 -vii. Alfred Mead, born Feb. 10, 1832, married 
Nov. 21, 1854, Hannah Maria Miles of Stow, born Dec. 
28, 1837, and resided in Natick, now in Newton Center, 
Mass. 

Issue of Alfred (147-vii.) and Hannah Maria (Miles) 
Mead: 

i. Albert Arthur, b. March 2, 1856; d. April 19, 1874. 
166— ii. Annie L., b. April 13, 1861. 

148-i. Adelbert Mead, born Jan. 10, 1822; mar- 
ried March 29, 1849, Almira Jane Hoar of Littleton. It 
was very muddy and he went three miles to hire a car- 
riage in which to bring his bride to West Acton. She 
was born Oct. 20, 1826. He has been a member of the 
school committee for several years, a trustee of the Acton 
Memorial Library for life. Joined the I. O. O. F. more 
than fifty years ago ; is a Past Grand, and also belongs 



128 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

to the Free Masons. He has iDcen connected in partner- 
ship with his brothers in a commission business in Boston 
for fifty-four years, which is a partnership of longer dura- 
tion than often occurs. He has been a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce and also of the Fruit Exchange 
from the first, a trustee of the Universalist society of 
West Acton from its start, and one of its most active 
members. 

Issue of Adelbert (148-i.) and Almira Jane (Hoar) Mead: 

i. Lucy Augusta, b. March 3, 1850; d. Aug. 3, 1850. 

167— ii. EsTELLA Augusta, b. Feb. 3, 1851. 

iii. Henry Adelbert, b. July 29, 1853; d. Dec. 27, 1883. 

iv. Susan Elizabeth, b. Feb. 28, 1855; d. Aug. 19, 1855. 

V. Clarence Varnum, b. Feb. 15, 1857; d. Nov. 24, 1857. 

149-ii. Oliver Warren Mead, bom Oct. 19, 1823; 
married May 22, 1851, Mary E. Hartwell of Harvard; 
she died in West Acton Jan. 14, 1866; married, second, 
Aug. 22, 1867, Susan A. Morrill of Canterbury-, N. H. 
She was born May 20, 1839, and died April 7, 1868; 
married, third, Jan. 19, 1869, Lucy Maria Emery of Jaf- 
frey, N. H.; she was born July 1, 1838. O. W. Mead 
belongs to all orders his brother Adelbert does, and was 
his partner in business fift3'-four years ; taught school in 
Lunenburg and Littleton. The three brothers have con- 
tributed largely to the support of the Universalist church 
in West Acton. He ran a sawmill in Canaan, N. H., ten 
years; director of American powder mill eighteen years, 
largely interested in western lands, director in First Na- 
tional Bank in Ayer, trustee in Middlesex Savings Bank, 
and ver^^ active in their organization ; very active in town 
affairs, and zealous in everything that tended to the best 
good of the community. 

Issue of Oliver Warren (149-ii.) and Mary E. (Hartwell) 

Mead: 

i. Warren Hartwell, b. Dec. 18, 1853; m. Dec, 1877, Lizzie 
M. Blandon of Paris, Tenn., settled in Nevada, Iowa, and 
died there Jan. 29, 1879. He fitted for college in Melrose, 
w^as in Harvard college. Harvard law school, and was in 
Europe for one year. 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 129 

ii. Julian A., b. April 15, 1856; m. Dec. 12, 1889, Mary D. Emer- 
son of Watertown. He was graduated from Phillips Exeter 
Academy, class of 1874, entered Harvard with honors, class 
of 1878, Harvard medical school, 1881, after which he spent 
two years abroad in the hospitals of Leipzig, Vienna and 
Paris. He began the practice of medicine in 1883, in Water- 
town, has been for some years medical examiner for his dis- 
trict, and is a member of the state board of health. 
168— iii. Emma Augusta, b. March 6, 1859. 

iv. Nelson A., b. Jan. 1, 1866; d. Jan. 2, 1866. 

Issue of third wife, Lucy Maria Emery: 

169— V. HoBART Emery, b. July 4, 1870. 

vi. Louis Guy, b. Oct. 3, 1873, graduated from Concord, 1892, 
Harvard college, 1896, Harvard medical school, 1900. He 
has an appointment in the Massachusetts General Hospital. 



loO-iii. Sarah Mead, born Aug. 22, 1825; married 
Aug. 11, 1846, John Lowe of Fitchburg; died Dec. 14, 
1865. She was the mother of twelve members of our 
"Circle," and all are interested in her short life. At the 
age of ten 3''ears, her mother being very ill, and she being 
named for her father's oldest sister, Sarah, who married 
Levi Houghton, it was thought best that she visit her for 
a time. Mr. Houghton and wife being childless, found the 
young girl of so much assistance and company that from 
that time their home became her home, she visiting her 
father's house for two weeks yearly. Being ambitious for 
an education, she studied even while braiding hats to pay 
for her tuition in the academy in the town. She has told 
us many times how her book was pressed open v^hile she 
washed and wiped dishes, as well as while she braided 
hats, and thus she laid the foundation of a better educa- 
tion than the average, and one that permitted her to 
keep pace with her children as they took up the more 
advanced studies. For the years that she lived with her 
uncle and aunt she received only her board, although they 
promised her father they would do more. When about 
twent^^ years of age, John Lowe (55-i.) and his brother 
were sent into the neighborhood to procure a boarding 
place while they chopped some wood, and while standing 



180 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

in the door of Mr. Houghton's house, Sarah came from 
chestnutting, and seeing two young men and strangers, 
was immediately troubled about her shoes, which were 
not of the Cinderella pattern, but heavy calf-hide, and she 
used often to say, laughingly, that "John fell in love with 
those shoes." Whether it was so or not, they were mar- 
ried in the Orthodox parsonage in Boxborough, by Rev. 
Mr. Farnsworth, Aug. 11, 1846, and from that time her 
life was thoroughly and truly given to her family. At the 
earl}^ age of forty years she went to her long home, after 
suffering from typhoid fever for two weeks. Father, 
mother, Waldo, Ira, Albert, Arthur and Frank had all 
been sick with the dread disease. Twelve children were 
left motherless, the oldest only a little more than eighteen 
years old and the yoimgest a babe five months old. At 
her funeral her pastor. Rev. Alfred Emerson, gave her the 
best tribute any one could render to a life so devoted to 
her family, by reading Proverbs, thirtA^-first chapter, from 
the tenth verse through. Those who knew her best sa3' 
of her that "she w^as a superior woman." 

Issue of Sarah (Mead) (150-iii.) and John Lowe: 

81 — i. Ellen Marlv, h. April 30, 1847, in Fitchburg. 

82— ii. Edna Mary, b. May 3, 1848, in Fitchburg. 

83— iii. Waldo Hawes, b. May 8, 1849, in Fitchburg. 

84 — iv. Ira Adelbert, b. Oct. 13, 1850, in Fitchburg. 

85— V. Albert Nathaniel, b. March 12, 1852, in Rindge, N. H. 

86— vi. Arthur Houghton, b. Aug. 20, 1853, in Rindge, N. H. 

87 — vii. Orin Messinger, b. April 18, 1855, in Fitchburg. 

88— viii. Lewis Mead, b. March 11, 1857, in Fitchburg. 

89 — ix. Herbert George, b. March 27, 1859, in Fitchburg. 

90— X. Ida Louisa, b. April 26, 1861, in Fitchburg. 

91 — xi. Frank Edward, b. Jan. 15, 1864, in Fitchburg. 

92 — xii. George Russell, b. Jul}- 11, 1865, in Fitchburg. 

The letter reproduced on the following pages was 
written to one of her children a short time before her 
last sickness. Nothing could show more plainly' the traits 
of character which make her memor\' dear to those who 
knew^ her. 



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of the John Loive Family Circle. 1 35 

151-iv. Maria Mead, born Sept. 7, 1S27, marricfl 
April 20, 1848, Andrew Patch of Littleton, Mass., who 
was born July 6, 1819, and died July 2, 1S80. When fif- 
teen years of age Maria went to Charlestown and re- 
mained in her Uncle Stone's family for two or three years, 
taught school in Littleton and Boxborough, when married 
went to Dorchester, N. H., to live a short time, and then 
to Harvard, Mass., where she resided until Sept. 11, 1888, 
when she moved to Charlestown, IVlass., and had a home 
with her son, Warren, and June 2, 1894, moved with him 
to Maiden. She joined the Rebekah lodge while in Har- 
vard, and also joined the Union church and was a teacher 
in the Sabbath school for many years and active in church 
work. 

Andrew Patch while in Harvard was mail carrier, 
expressman, and transported passengers to and from the 
depot for nearly twenty years, was undertaker for twenty- 
seven 3^ears. He was a member of the L O. O. F., joining 
in East Cambridge when about twenty-one, and removed 
his membership to Harvard lodge where he was very 
active and became Past Grand, initiating his own son, 
Andrew Warren, and joined the encampment at Lowell. 
He died of peritonitis. 

Issue of Maria (151-iv.) (Mead) and Andrew Patch: 

170— i. Andrew Warren, b. Oct. 2, 1850, in Dorchester, N. H. 

ii. John Herbert, b. Sept. 13, 1852; d. Aug. 11, 1854. 

iii. Adelbert Henry, b. April 2, 1855; d. Dec. 19, 1859. 

iv. Lucie Maria, b. in Harvard, Mass., May 21, 1857. Attended 
the pubHc schools in Harvard and also Lancaster Academy ; 
graduated from the Bromfield school in Harvard in 1880. 
Played a pipe organ in the Universalist church for ten years, 
then went to live with her brother in Charlestown. and in 
1894 moved with him to Maiden. She has passed through 
the chairs of Rebekah Lodge of Odd Fellows, and has been 
Special Deputy Grand Master. She is an officer in the Order 
of the Eastern Star. 

153-vi. Anna Betsey Mead, b. Jan. 1, 1S31. mar- 
ried in Fitchburg, April 8, 1856, Charies Stanley Twitchell, 
born in Peterborough, N. H., Oct. 12, 1835. She taught 



136 The Ancestors atid Their Descendants 

school in Rindge, N. H., Boxborough and West Acton, 
was one of the first members of the Universalist church in 
West Acton, where she has been treasurer of the Ladies' 
Circle for many years and a Sabbath school teacher, also 
a member of the Winona Rebekah Lodge. "Those who 
know her most love her best." 

Charles S. Twitchell's father died when he was only 
five years old. After the age of seventeen he worked for 
John Lowe (58-i.) four or five 3'ears, then married and 
lived in West Acton, where he has been a member of the 
Universalist church, of which he has been treasurer for 
many years, and superintendent of the Sabbath school for 
fourteen years. A member of Corinthian Lodge of Masons 
of Concord, Mass., of Lodge No. 203, L O. O. F., is Vice 
Grand at present, also a member of the Winona Rebekah 
Lodge. 

Issue of Anna Betsey (152-vi.) (Mead) and Charles 
Stanley Twitchell: 

i. Clarence Varnum, b. Aug. 21, 1859; m. March 28, 1896' 
Mrs. Martha M. (Bean) Haddock. After attending the 
public schools of West Acton, attended a private school in 
Waltham and one 3'ear in Br^-ant & Stratton's business col- 
lege of Boston, but an accident received at the age of seven 
3'ears unfitted him for some kinds of business. He has been 
connected with the Sabbath school of the Universalist 
church and for many years its janitor. 



153-vii. Varnum Balfour Mead, born Oct. 16, 
1832; married Sept. 2, 1856, Martha Keyes of West Ac- 
ton, who died March 16, 1858, of consumption, leaving 
no child; married, second, Sept. 18, 1859, Direxa E. 
Steams, wrho died in Somerville, with her son George, 
March 20, 1900. Oct. 5, 1851, Varnum started for the 
Sandwich Islands in a sailing vessel around Cape Horn, 
arriving Feb. 9, 1852 ; he remained in Honolulu about 
three 3'ears, and returned home by way of San Francisco, 
where he stopped about two months. He was emplo\'ed 
in the meat business in Fitchburg for a time, then went 
to West Acton, where he resided until nearlv 1900. In 



of ike JoJin Lozve Family Circle. 137 

the fall of 1865 he went into the store of A. & 0. W. 
Mead & Co., where he has remained. 

Issue of Varnum Balfour (153-vii.) and Direxa E. 
(Stearns) Mead: 

171— i. George Varnum, b. in Townsend, Mass., March IS, 1861. 
172— ii. Frederick Stearns, b. in West Acton, Feb. 1, 186.^). 
173— iii. Adelbert Francis, b. June 11, 1866. 

154-viii. Frances Adelaide Mead, born Sept. 30, 
1842; married in Harvard April 13, 1864, Francis Henry 
Stevens (155-i.) of Stow. She taught school in Boxl)or- 
ough for a time; was one of the charter members of the 
Isaac Davis Woman's Relief Corps, No. 62, and has held 
the office of president; is also a member of Stow Grange, 
No. 103, and has held the office of lecturer for three years. 

Issue of Frances Adelaide (154-viii.) (Mead) and 
Francis Henry (155-i.) Stevens: 

174— i. Eugene Clifford, Feb. 26, 1866. 



EIGHTH GENERATION. 

155-i. Francis Henry Stevens, born June 11, 1839, 
married in Harvard, April 13, 1864, Frances Adelaide 
Mead (154-viii.), daughter of Nathaniel (133-x.) and Luc}^ 
Taylor Mead. Francis (called Frank) enlisted Sept. 27, 
1861, in Company E, 26th Mass. Vols., and was dis- 
charged as sergeant, Sept. 26, 1865. Since his return has 
lived on his father's farm in Stow. A charter member of 
Isaac Davis Post, G. A. R., in 1885, has been commander 
two years and at present is adjutant, which office he has 
held seven years; a member of the Stow Grange. Is now 
and has been for seven years a deput}^ of the State Grange, 
is chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Stow, treasurer 
of the town, a trustee of Hale High School Fund, on the 
Republican committee for many years and chairman most 
of the time. 

Issue of Francis Henry (155-i.) and Frances Adelaide 
(Mead) (154-viii.) Stevens: 
174—1. Eugene Clifford, b. Feb. 26, 1866. 



138 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

156-ii. Ann Maria Stevens, b. Sept. 20, 1840, mar- 
ried April 11, 1861, George Lewis Peters, who was born 
March 3, 1825, resided in Boxborough six years, then 
moved to Stow. 

Issue of Ann Maria (156-ii.) (Stevens) and George 
Lewis Peters : 

i. Effie Maria, b. in Boxborough, July 18, 1866. 

157 -iii. Ellen Sophia Stevens, born Nov. 29, 1843; 
married May 11, 1867, Chauncey Webb Butters, and died 
March 10, 1873. 

Issue of Ellen Sophia (157-iii.) (Stevens) and Chaun- 
cey Webb Butters: 

i. Nellie Stevens, b. Aug. 1, 1872. 

158-iv. William Edwin Stevens, born April 3, 
1846; married Dec. 31, 1869, Ada Johnson, born Oct. 7, 
1852; died March 17, 1898. He married, second, March 
2, 1899, Myra R. Whitcomb. 

Issue of William Edwin (158-iv.) and Ada (Johnson) 
Stevens : 

175— i. Frederick Roscoe, b. Nov. 6, 1871; m. Jan. 10, 1897, Ella 
M. Pern', 
ii. Gertrude A., b. April 11, 1874; d. Dec. 26, 1890. 

159-i. Lyman Willis Mead, born March 11, 1855; 
married Nov. 25, 1875, Julia A. Littlefield of Boxborough, 
born June 15, 1854. 

Issue of Lyman Willis (159-i.) and Julia A. (Little- 
field) Mead: 

i. Mabel Viola, b. May 7, 1876; m. Dec. 30, 1895, Harry H. 

Russell, 
ii. Edith Minnie, b. April 7, 1880; m. Oct. 20, 1898, Church 

Morse, 
iii. Eva Idelle, b. Jan. 3, 1890. 

l(>0-ii. Emma Melissa Mead, born June 19, 1859; 
married June 19, 1877, Frank Priest, a carpenter in West 
Acton. 



of tJic John Lowe Family Circle. 180 

Issue of Emma Melissa (160-ii.) (Mead) and Frank 
Priest : 

i. Maud Beatrice, b. Aug. 16, 1884; is in class of 1901, Concord 
high school. 



161-i. Anna Frances Mead, born An^. 4, 1860; 
married March 11, 1882, Philip Cunningham, and lives 
on the old Stone place in Boxborough. 

Issue of Anna Frances (161-i.) (Mead) and Philij) Cun- 
ningham : 

i. Bernice Frances, b. Jan. 11, 1883, a pvipil in Concord high 

school, 
ii. Stella Mead, b. Feb. 12, 1885, a pupil in Concord high 

school, 
iii. Wallace Emery, b. Nov. 29, 1887. 
iv. Leo Clement, b. Aug. 6, 1889. 
V. Robert Philip, b. March 11, 1898. 



103-i. Charles Henry Mead, born in Boxborough 
Feb. 24, 1857; married June 16, 1883, Jennie Foster 
Bruce, in Groton. He is proprietor of a general store in 
West Acton. 

Issue of Charles Henry (162-i.) and Jennie Foster 
(Bruce) Mead: 

i. Dorothy Bruce, b. March 26, 1895. 



163-iv. Ada Blanche Mead, born Oct. 26, 1872; 
married Aug. 9, 1891, Wallace Alden Brown of Concord, 
a traveling salesman. 

Issue of Ada Blanche (163-iv.) (Mead) and Wallace 
Alden Brown : 

i. Mildred Blanche, b. in South Acton, Ma\' 6, 1892. 



164-i. Edgar Clarence Mead, born July 18, 1850; 
married Nov. 19, 1874, Lucie Helena Hayward, born June 
6, 1855; resides on a farm in Boxborough. 



140 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Issue of Edgar Clarence (164-i.) and Lucie Helena 
(Hayward) Mead: 

i. Clarence Warren, b. Feb. 20, 1877, a graduate of Burdett's 

business college, and is in a market in Wellesley Hills, 
ii. Eben Hayward, b. June 27, 1881. 
iii. Ethel Williams, b. Aug. 21, 1883. 
iv. Catherine LorisA, b. Oct. 31, 1890. 

165-iii. Sylvia A. Mead, born Sept. 2, 1875 ; married 
Harvej^ C. Morrill. 

Issue of Sylvia A. (165-iii.) (Mead) and Harvey C. 
Morrill : 

i. Albert Mead, b. Nov. 9, 1896. 
ii. Arthur Clifton, b. Aug. 3, 1900. 

166-ii. Anxie Louise Mead, Ijorn April 13, 1861 ; 
married Nov. 1, 1882, Frank M. Forbush, born Sept. 20, 
1858. 

Issue of Annie Louise (166-ii.) (Mead) and Frank M. 
Forbush : 

i. Walter Alfred, b. Oct. 11, 1886. 
ii. Robert Lewis, b. Aug. 4, 1890. 

lC>7-ii. EsTELLA Augusta Mead, born Feb. 3, 1851; 
married 1870 David Cutler; attended the Concord high 
school ; resides with her father in West Acton, where she 
has been a member of and very active in the Universalist 
church, having been a Sabbath school teacher and collector 
for many years. 

Issue of Estella Augusta (167-ii.) (Mead) and David 
Cutler : 

i. Henrietta Estella, b. April 22, 1871, m. Aug. 8, 1897, Prof. 
Raymond Dodge of Woburn, graduated from Concord high 
school 1892, entered Smith college, class of 1896, attended 
one year, and taught school at South Acton and Littleton. 

ii. Ethel Mead, b. Dec. 26, 1873; attended Concord high school; 
is a charter member of Winona Rebekah Lodge. 

iii. Emma Cushing, b. Oct. 14, 1877, graduated from Concord 
high school 1895, post-graduate one year, graduated from 



of the John Loive Family Circle. 141 

Boston Normal School of Gymnastics 1898, post-graduate 

one year, 
iv. David Adelbert, b. Nov. 6, 1879, graduated from Acton high 

school 1896, Burdett's business college 1897, and worked 

for Hood Rubber Co. of Waltham two years, and entered 

Wes]e3'an University. 
V. Zelia Almir.\, b.June 19, 1882, graduated from Concord high 

school, class of 1899, entered Wesleyan University, class of 

1903. 

168-iii. Emma Augusta Mead, born March 6, 1859, 
married Dec. 24, 1881, George Sumner Wright of West 
Acton. She fitted for college in the Academic department 
which was then connected with Wellesley college (since 
discontinued), and was graduated in class of 1881; resides 
in Watertown. 

Issue of Emma Augusta (168-iii.) Mead and George 
Sumner Wright: 

i. Warren Mead, b. Oct. 3, 1882; graduated from Phillips 
Exeter academy, class of 1900, and entered Harvard with 
honors, class of 1904. 

ii. Mary, b. Sept. 29, 1886: d. Jan. 25, 1892. 

iii. Margaret, b. Dec. 10, 1893. 

169-v. HoBART Emery Mead, born July 4, 1870, 
married June 23, 1897, Albertie M. Preston. He entered 
Chauncy Hall school in Boston in 1884, graduated in 
1887, took post-graduate course the following year; 
entered Institute of Technology in 1889 for one 3'ear. 
Entered the employ of A. & O. W. Mead & Co. in 1890, 
remaining until the purchase of the business by the three 
sons of Varnum Mead, April, 1900, when he became his 
father's private secretary. 

Issue of Hobart Emery (169-v.) and Albertie M. (Pres- 
ton) Mead: 

i. Pauline Anderson, 1). July 31, 1898. 

ITO-i. Andrew Warren Patch, born in Dorchester, 
N. H., Oct. 2, 1850, married April 3, 1879, Sarah Eliza- 
beth Stone, daughter of ex-Mayor Jonathan Stone of 



142 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Charlestown, born Oct. 9, 1858, and died in Charlestown 
Dec. 17, 1887. Besides attending the public school in Har- 
vard he attended the Lancaster Academy. Taught school 
three months in Harvard. In March, 1872, he went to 
Boston in the emploj^ of A. & O. W. Mead & Co., remain- 
ing with that firm until November, 1881, when he started 
in business for himself. In March, 1882, he associated 
with himself Charles G. Roberts, under the firm name of 
Patch & Roberts, at 17 North Market street, where he 
has been ever since. He is an Odd Fellow, a Knight Tem- 
plar, a trustee of the Masonic apartments, a member of 
the Boston Chamber of Commerce, a member and director 
of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, and president 
of the Boston Beneficiary Association. He is treasurer and 
trustee of the First Parish in Maiden (Universalist), secre- 
tary of the National League of Commission Merchants, 
secretarj^ of the National Apple Shippers' Association, a 
director of the Maiden Trust Company, a trustee of the 
Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank, and a member of 
the Bunker Hill Monument Association. He is a Republi- 
can in politics. 

Issue of Andrew Warren (170-i.) and Sarah Elizabeth 
(Stone) Patch: 

i. Ruth Stanwood, b. Nov. 20, 1887; was made the "daughter 
of the League" of the National League of Commission 
Merchants of the United States Jan., 1894. 



171-i. George Varnum Mead, born in Townsend 
March 18, 1861; married Nov. 17, 1883, Effie Rosella 
Wright. After his school da3^s he went to work in Bos- 
ton for his father and uncles (A. & O. W. Mead & Co.), 
where he worked until April 2, 1900, when he and his 
two brothers bought out the firm under the old name. 
He resides in Somerville. 

Issue of George Varnum (171-i.) and Effie Rosella 
(Wright) Mead: 

i. Frances Varnum, b. Aug. 19, 1885. 



of the John Lozve Family Circle. 143 

173-ii. Frederic Stearns Mead, liorn in West Ac- 
ton Feb. 1, 180)5; married Sept. 18, 1884-, Lizzie Maria 
Gates. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias and is elerk 
of the First UniversaHst church of ArHngton, where they 
reside. 

Issue of Frederic Stearns (172-ii.) and Lizzie Maria 
(Gates) Mead: 

i. Frederic Stearns, Jr., b. in West Acton, Sept. IS, 1885. 
ii. Edward Adams, h. in Walthani, March :5(). 18<J(). 

173-iii. Adelbert Francis Mead, born June 11, 
1866; married Nov. 16, 1889, Theodosia Bertha Wright, 
and resides in Somerville. 

Issue of Adelbert Francis (173-iii.) and Theodosia 
Bertha (Wright) Mead: 

i. Marion Elizabeth, b. Auf,^ 28, 1890. 

ii. Sumner .\delbert, b. Oct. 30, 1892. 

iii. LuciAN Wright, li. June 15, 1895. 

iv. Varnum Cleveland, b. Auj^. 5, 1898. 



NINTH GENERATION. 

lT4-i. Eugene Clifford Stevens, born Feb. 26, 
1866, married Oct. 7, 1887, Alice S. Guilford of West 
Acton. Was station agent for the Fitchburg railroad in 
West Acton for many years. 

Issue of Eugene Clifford (174-i.) and Alice S. (Guilford) 
Stevens : 

i. Harold Francis, b. Nov. 18, 1888. 

ii. Lyman Guilford, b. Dec. 26, 1891; d. June 10, 1893. 

175-i. Frederic Ro&coe Stevens, born Nov. 6, 1871, 
married Jan. 10, 1897, Ella M. Perry. 

Issue of Frederic Roscoe (175-i.) and Ella M. (Perry) 
Stevens : 

i. Ralph Edwin, b. Feb. 22, 1898; d. Aug., 1898. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

The Whitneys, Taylors and Stones. 

Deacon Oliver Mead (127-ii.), born Sept. 2, 1751, 
married July 22, 1777, Ann Whitne^^ born May 2, 1760. 
We find the birth of Ann Whitne}' given in the History of 
Harvard and also in the Whitney Genealogy as the ninth 
child of Abraham and Sarah (Whitney) Whitne\'. Al- 
though her marriage is not given in the Whitnej^ Gene- 
alogy, there are those of their descendants now Hving 
who believe them to be the same. In the Whitnej^ Gene- 
alogy we find the following line : 

We will mention a few things and then commence with 
John Whitnev, the emigrant, whose grandfather. Sir Rob- 
ert, was dubbed a knight the day after Queen Mary's 
coronation, Oct. 2, 1553. All may be interested in the 
legendar3' explanation of the crest. Sir Randolph de 
Whitne\% the grandson of Eustace (founder of the name), 
accompanied Richard Cceur de Lion to the Crusades and 
distinguished himself greatl3^ by his personal strength and 
great courage. When going on a mission to the French 
commander, he was assailed by the brother of Saladin 
and two Saracens. De Whitney was defending himself 
with great vigor, but losing ground, when a furious Span- 
ish bull was attracted by the red dress of the Saracens 
and the\^ sought safety in flight, enabling De Whitnej' to 
mortally wound his single assailant; and then, overtak- 
ing the two Saracens, he soon dispatched them. Accord- 
ing to the superstitions of that time, Sir Randolph attrib- 
uted the event to the especial interposition of the Virgin, 
a medal of whom, consecrated by the pope, he had con- 
tinualh^ worn upon his breast. On his return to England 
he erected a chapel to the Virgin, the walls of which 
remain to this day, adjoining the grounds of the ancient 



TJie John Loive Family Circle. 145 

family mansion of Whitne\^-on-the-Wye. Arms: Azure, a 
cross chequj^ or and sable. Upon a canton gules, a lion 
rampant argent. Crest: A bull's head couped sable; 
horned argent; horns tipped with red. Motto: " Fortis 
sed non ferox.'' 

John Whitne3^ received a good education in the famous 
Westminster school, now known as St. Peter's college, and 
Feb. 22, 1607, at the age of fourteen, w^as apprenticed by 
his father to William Pring of the Old Bailey, London. 
The latter was a freeman of the Merchant Taylors' Com- 
pany, then the most famous of all the trade guilds, num- 
bering in its membership many of the nobility and the 
Prince of Wales. March 13, 1614, Whitney became a full- 
fledged member. He was born in England in 1589, mar- 
ried in England Elinor , and dwelt in the parish of 

Isleworth-on-the-Thames, opposite Richmond, nine miles 
from London, from Ma}-, 1619, to January, 1623-4. The 
record of persons permitted to embark at the port of 
London "after Christmas, 1634," manuscript folio page 
35, in Rolls oflice. Chancy Lane, gives the following names 
and ages: John Whitney, 35, Elinor Whitney, 30, John, 11, 
Richard, 9, Nathaniel, 8, Thomas, 6, Jonathan, 1. They 
settled in Watertown, Mass., June, 1635, where Elinor 
died May 11, 1659. He married, second, Sept. 29, 1659, 
Judith Clement. She died before her husband, who died 
June 1, 1673. 

SECOND GENERATION. 

175-iv. Thomas Whitney, who was born in England, 
1629, married in Watertown, Mass., Jan. 11, 1654, Mary 
Kedall or Kettle. He was admitted freeman, April 18, 
1690. 

THIRD GENERATION. 

176-x. Isaiah Whitney, born Sept. 16, 1671, was 
the tenth child of Thomas, married in 1695, Mrs. Sarah 
(Woodard) Eddy, daughter of George Woodard and widow 
of Jonathan Eddy, who was born Oct. 3, 1675. 

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146 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

178-viii. Abraham Whitney was the eighth child 
of Isaiah, and was baptized in Lexington, Feb. 19, 1710; 
married, Jan. 18, 1737, Sarah Whitney, daughter of John 
and Elizabeth (Lee) Whitney, born Oct. 2, 1716, died July 
4, 1800. They resided in Harvard. "In seating the meet- 
ing house in Harvard in 1766, Abraham Whitney was 
given the second seat below." He died Ma}' 19, 1784. 

Issue of Abraham (178-viii.) and Sarah (Whitney) 
Whitney : 

i. Elizabeth, h. March 22, 1739. 

ii. Sarah, b. May 16, 1740. 

Hi. Elizabeth, b. April 25, 1742. 

iv. Mary, b. Sept. 16, 1744. 

V. John, b. Oct. 3, 1746. 

vi. Abraham, b. Dec. 20, 1748. 

vii. Isaiah, b. Oct. 6, 1751. 

viii. Elijah, b. Feb. 15, 1754. 

179— ix. Ann, b. May 2, 1760. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 

179-ix. Ann Whitney, born May 2, 1760, married 
Oliver Mead, July 22, 1777. 

Issue of Ann (179-ix.) (Whitney) and Oliver (127-ii.) 
Mead: 

i. Sarah, b. Dec. 19, 1778. 

ii. Lucy, b. Jan. 4, 1781. 

128— iii. Anna, b. April 4, 1783. 

129— iv. Oliver, b. April 10, 1785. 

130— V. Abraham, b. July 9, 1787. 

131— vi. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 1, 1789. 

vii. Nabby, b. Dec. 16, 1791. 

132— viii. Samuel, b. March 3, 1794. 

ix. Hannah, b. Tune 13, 1796. 

133— X. Nathaniel, b. Oct. 30, 1798; m. Lucy (183-i.) Taylor. 



of the Jo/ill Luzuc Family Circle. 147 

Ancestors of Lucy Taylor, Wife of Nathaniel Mead. 

Of the TsiyXoY family, it is known that in the latter 
part of the 17th century three brothers, Ephraim, Phineas 
and John, sailed from England to America, and all settled 
in Boxborough— John, our ancestor, on what is known as 
the Capt. Taylor place, which has been owned by his 
descendants of the name ever since. He had a son John, 
who was born in 1697, and his children were: 

i. John, b. 1719. 

ii. Jabe, b. 1722. 

180— iii. Solomon, b. 1724. 

iv. Hannah, who m. Elijah Willis Dec, 1760. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

180-iii. Solomon Taylor, born 1724; married 1745 
Mary MacLaughlin, who was "born on the w^ater." 

Issue of Solomon (180-iii.) and Mary (MacLaughlin) 
Taylor : 

i. Molly, 1). 174-6, in. March 29, 1761, Frederic Walcott of Stow, 

ii. John, b. 1748, enlisted in Revolutionary army and served seven 

years, 

iii. Tabbathy, b. Nov. 13, 1749. 

iv. Lydia, b. Feb. 10, 1752. 

181— V. Oliver, h. March 30, 1754. 

vi. Solomon, b. .\ug. 19, 1756, m. March 7, 1777, Anna Whitman, 

vii. Betty, b. June 3, 1858, m. Feb. 3, 1776, Levi Wheeler. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

181-v. Oliver Taylor, born March 30, 1754; mar- 
ried Betty Wetherbee, born Feb. 11, 1753, a daughter of 
Phineas and Betty (Whitney) Wetherbee, who were mar- 
ried March 5, 1741, by Rev. John Seccumb of Harvard. 
They remained on the farm with his father, and in 1784 he 
was one in favor of Boxborough being set off from Har- 
vard. In the year 1782 his house was burned with all its 



148 TJic Ancestors ajid Their Descendajits 

treasures. It was after harvesting, but with the aid of 
neighbors from miles around, who felled and hewed the 
timber, which was of oak and sound to-day, a new house 
was built and finished, into which they moved Thanksgiv- 
ing day. "With hearts overflowing with gratitude, they 
partook of the bounty prepared by the neighbors, who 
were present to receive their thanks." From this time it 
was his custom to ask a blessing and return thanks for 
every Thanksgiving dinner. In 1826 his wife died very 
suddenly on Monday evening and was buried Thanksgiv- 
ing day. "Without eating or drinking, he sat by her side 
until she was laid away. All he could say was, 'I can't 
be with her long.'" When a boy of sixteen, Capt. Taylor 
brought a beautiful little elm from Wolf swamp on his 
back and set it southeast of the old log house. The wind 
blowing from the same direction, the tree was not injured, 
not even a twig. In 1883, Juh' 4, just one hundred and 
one years after the burning of the old house, his descend- 
ants to the sixth generation made a festival in honor of 
their grandsire and his pet tree, at which time a poem 
was written and read by his granddaughter. Miss Mary 
Taylor, entitled "The Old Elm Tree." 

Issue of Oliver (181-v.) and Betty (Wetherbee) Taylor: 

182— i. Oliver, b. Jan. 7, 1775. 

ii. Hezekiah, m. Sallj^ Wetherbee of Harvard. He was in con- 
sumption and married on his bed. 
iii. Jonathan, m. Lucy Whitcomb. 
iv. Betty, m. Oliver Mead (129-iv). 
V. Lovell. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 

18*/5-i. Oliver Taylor, Jr., born Jan. 7, 1775; mar- 
ried Aug. 12, 1800, Betsey Fairbanks Stone, who was 
born April 24, 1777, and' died Dec. 30, 1852. He died 
March 23, 1837. He remained with his father, making 
barrels or farming, as was convenient. 



of the JoJin Lowe Family Circle. 149 

Issue of Oliver, Jr., (182-i.) and Betsey Fairbanks 
(Stone) Taylor: 

183— i. Lucy, b. July 26, 1801. 

ii. Betsey, b. Aug. 12, 1803, d. Feb. 7, 1805. 

iii. Franklin, b. Aug. 24, 1806, supposed to have d. May 20, 
1849, in the woods in Boxborough. The body was found 
Feb. 8, 1850, and conveyed to the family tomb Feb. 10. 

iv. Nancy, b. April 15, 1809; m. Nov. 28, 1833, Jacob Littlefield. 
She d. Jan. 16. 1836, leaving a little son, Sheldon, who was 
b. Feb. 18, 1834. 

V. Varnum, b. April 18, 1811, m. Nov. 28, 1838, Mary Dickerson 
Bowers. He d. just three years and one day after the 
celebration of the "Old Elm," July, 1886. He was a man 
like his father, of noble and generous impulse and strict 
integrity. 

vi. Sarah Stone, b. Dec. 26, 1813; m. June 21, 1840, Phineas 
Whitcomb Houghton; d. May 31, 1851. 

vii. Mary, b. July 21, 1817, d. Nov. 28, 1896. She was a fine 
scholar, taught school many years, and took care of her 
sister's son, Sheldon Littlefield, after his mother's death, 
wrote a few poems, especially the one for the celebration of 
her grandfather's old elm tree. In her will she wished to 
remember every nephew, niece, grandniece and grand- 
nephew, mentioning more than seventy different persons. 

viii. Eunice, b. Oct. 23, 1819, d. Feb. 20, 1848. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 

183-i. Lucy Taylor, 1)orn July 26, 1801 ; married 
March 24, 1820, Nathaniel (133-x.) Mead, born Oct. 3, 
1798. He died July 9, 1852; she died Oct. 5, 1865, of 
heart disease. 

Issue of Lucy (183-i.) (Taylor) and Nathaniel (133-x.) 
Mead: 

148— i. Adelbert, b. Jan. 10. 1822. 

149— ii. Oliver Warren, b. Oct. 19, 1823. 

150— iii. Sarah, b. August 22, 1825, m. John Lowe (55-i.). 

151— iv. Maria, b. Sept. 7, 1827. 

V. Mary, b. June. 1829. 

152— vi. Betsey Anna, b. Jan. 1, 1831. 

153— vii. Varnum Balfour, b. Oct. 16, 1832. 

154— viii. Frances Adelaide, b. Sept. 30, 1842. 



160 The Ancestors and Their Descendants 

Ancestors of Betsey Fairbanks Stone, Wife of 

Oliver Taylor. 

Oliver Taylor (182-i.) married Betsey Eairbanks Stone 
Aug. 12, 1800. She was born April 24. 1777, and died 
Dec. 30, 1852. Her ancestr\' follows : 

Simon Stone was taxed for land in Boxted, Esesx 
countj^ England. A Simon Stone embarked for New Eng- 
land April 15, 1635, in the ship Increase, his age being 
fifty years; his wife, Joan, aged 38, daughter of William 
Clark. Their children then were: (i.) Frances, sixteen 
years; (ii.) Ann, eleven 3^ears ; (184-iii.) Simon, four ^-ears; 
(iv.) Marie, three years; (v.) John, five weeks. The3^ set- 
tled in Watertown, Mass., where Joan died before 1654, 
when Simon Stone married for his second wife Sarah, 
widow of Richard Lumpkin of Ipswich, Mass. He died 
Sept 22, 1665. 

SECOND GENERATION. 

184-iii. Simon Stone, born 1631; married Mary 
Whipple, born 1634. He, like his father, was a deacon of 
the church in Watertown, and as deacons were then cho- 
sen for life, there seems to have been a Dea. Simon Stone 
in that church for seventy-five years. Descendants of Si- 
mon Stone for several generations were deacons. Their 
oldest child was: 

185— i. Simon, b. 1656. 

THIRD GENERATION. 

185-i. Simon Stone, born 1656, married Sarah Farns- 
worth, daughter of Matthias Earns worth. Simon Stone 
was in King Philip's war, serving in one of the garrisons 
in Groton in Januar^^ 1675-6, and in Capt. Joseph Sill's 
compan\^ against the Indians in June, 1676. He was also 
in King William's war, being in Exeter, N. H., when that 
place was assaulted by Indians, July 4, 1690, and was 
severely wounded. 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 151 

Issue of Simon (185-i.) and Sarah (Farnsworth) Stone: 

i. Sarah, b. 1684, m. Sept. 28, 1708, Stephen Farr of Stow. 

ii. Simon, b. Aug. 1, 1686. 

iii. Abigail, b. 1691; m. Dec. 11, 1718, Nathaniel Holden; d. 

Sept. 29, 1757. 
iv. Mary, b. 1692; m. Abraham Whitne}- ; Hved in Stow. 
V. Susanna, b. Oct. 23, 1694, m. Jacob Chamberlain of Newton, 
vi. Isaac, b. May 4, 1697, d. Sept. 30, 1723. 
vii. Hannah, b. 1699, d. Sept. 27, 1723. 
186— viii. Joseph, b. March 8, 1702. 

ix. Benjamin, b. Aug. 12, 1706; m. May 13, 1736, Emma Parker; 

d. Sept. 23, 1758; lived in Groton. 
X. Lydia, b. 1708; d. Sept. 30, 1723. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

186-viii. Joseph Stone, born March 8, 1702, mar- 
ried May 9, 1728, Mary Prescott (115-iv.). He died Sept. 
10, 1767; his wife, Mary, died April 5, 1789. 

Issue of Joseph (186-viii.) and Mary (115-iv.) (Pres- 
cott) Stone: 

i. Joseph, b. Dec. 20, 1729. 

ii. Mary, b. Aug. 28, 1731. 

iii. Sybil, b. Oct. 16, 1733. 

iv. Isaac, b. Dec. 25, 1735. 

V. Jonas, b. Nov. 11, 1737; m. about 1765, Rebecca ; lived in 

Groton; she died Jan., 1824, leaving eight children, 
vi. Sarah, b. Feb. 4, 1740. 
187— vii. Silas, b. Feb. 11, 1742. 
viii. Lydia, b. April 1, 1744. 
ix. Simon, b. Nov. 1, 1746. 
X. Amos, b. July 24, 1749; m. about 1775, Molly Moore; settled 

in Groton, where he died ; she died. May 13, 1847, aged 94, 

leaving ten children. 
xi. Samuel, b. Nov. 7, 1751. 
xii. Thankful, b. Oct. 10, 1754. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 

187 -vii. Silas Stone, born Feb. 11, 1742; married 
Jan. 1, 1767, Eunice Fairbanks, who was born Dec. 23, 



152 The Ancestors and TJieir Descendants 

1744, daughter of Phineas and Sarah (Stone) Fairbanks, 
(married June 11, 1740,) and probably a descendant of 
Lydia Prescott, daughter of John Prescott, who married 
Jonas Fairbanks. Silas Stone lived in Templeton, Mass., 
where six of his children were born, then returned to Har- 
vard, where the remaining four were born. She died June 
7, 1828. 

Issue of Silas (187-vii.) and Eunice (Fairbanks) Stone: 

i. Lucy, b. March 3, 1768, m. Mr. Mallory. 

ii. Eunice, b. Jan. 18, 1770, in. Jonas Faulkner. 

iii. Sally, b. Oct. 17, 1771, d. Aug. 20, 1804. 

iv. Silas, b. Aug. 27, 1773. 

188— V. Phineas, b. Jul,v 3. 1775. 

189— vi. Betsey Fairbanks, b. April 24, 1777. 

vii. Hannah, 1j. in Harvard, Aug. 27, 1779, m. William Fallass. 

viii. Jasper, b. Sept. 8, 1781, m. Aug. 22, 1809, Mary Babcock. 

ix. Joseph, b. Dec. 17, 1783, d. Nov. 4, 1822. 

X. Lois, b. Aug. 6, 1786. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 

188-v. Phineas Stone, born July 3, 1775; married 
May 3, 1808, Hannah Jones of Londonderry, N. H. She 
was born April 23, 1783; died Dec. 17, 1867, and is 
buried in Boxborough. He died Jan. 9, 1852. We men- 
tion these because two of their granddaughters have mar- 
ried members of our ''Circle." 

Issue of Phineas (188-v.) and Hannah (Jones) Stone: 

i. Sarah, b. March IS, 1809; m. Seth Lewis and lived in Charles- 
town, and with whom Sarah Mead, our mother, lived for 
a few months previous to her marriage; she died April 27, 
1872, and is buried in Woodlawn. 

ii. Phineas Jones, b. May 23, 1810; m. Ann M. Lindse}-; d. 
July 12, 1891, and is buried in Mt. Auburn. 

iii. Silas, b. Sept. 30, 1812; m. Sarah Ann Hall; d. March 3. 
1842, and is buried in Boxborough. 

iv. Josiah, b. Jan. 7, 1815; d. Sept. 7, 1815. 

v. Amos, b. Aug., 1816; m. Sarah L. Mills; d. Feb. 13, 1896, 
and is buried in Woodlawn. 
190— vi. Jasper, b. .Aug. 26, 1818. 



of the John Lotve Family Circle. 153 

vH. Joseph, b. Aug. 12, 1820; d. Jan. 28, 1846, and is buried in 

Boxborough. 
viii. Jonathan, b. April 29, 1823; m. first, S. Rebecca Andrews; 

second, Mary L. Andrews. He d. Friday, Nov. 26, 1897; 

he was the father of Sarah Elizabeth Stone, who ui. Warren 

Patch (167-i.). 



189-vi. Betsey Fairbanks Stone, born April 24, 
1777; married, Aug. 12, 1800, Oliver Taylor (182-i.) ; she 
died Dec. 30, 1852. 

Issue of Betsey Fairbanks (189-vi.) (Stone) and Oli- 
ver (182-i.) Taylor: 

i. Lucy, b. July 26, 1801; m. Nathaniel Mead. Their children 

are recorded under Meads, 

ii. Betsey. 

iii. Franklin. 

iv. Nancy. 

V. Varnum. 

vi. Sarah Stone. 

vii. Mary. 

viii. Eunice. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 

190-vi. Jasper Stone, born Aug. 26, 1818; married 
Oct. 19, 1845, Ann Gray, who died Feb. 17, 1847, aged 
twenty-five years and ten months. Their child was Jasper 
Gray, born Jan. 15, 1847; died June 12, 1847. Married, 
second, May 6, 1849, Mary Patten Swett, born Feb. 20, 
1819, and died Aug. 25, 1893. He and his brothers were 
men of great influence and large real estate owners in 
Charlestown, Mass., where he died Dec. 4, 1892. 

Issue of Jasper (190-vi.) and Mary Patten (Swett) 
Stone : 

i. Jasper, b. Feb. 16, 1850; m. 1870 Sarah L. Adams. He is 
successor of his father as a jeweller in Charlestown. 

ii. Mary Elizabeth, b. Sept. 16, 1851; m. John H. Nutter and 
resides in New York city. 

iii. Vienna, b. May 26, 1854; m. first, 1879, Charles H. Hanson, 
who d. at sea; m. second, Joseph Hanson. 



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154 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants. 

iv. Ann Maria, b. Feb. 20, 1857, m. June 19, 1884, Ira Adelbert 

Lowe (84-iv.). 
V. MiNNETTE DE Seigneur, b. Feb. 21, 1859, d. Sept. 19, 1876, 

and is buried in Woodlawn. 
vi. Martha, b. March 6, 1862; m. Feb. 8, 1888, Charles Fred 

Towle of Northvvood, N. H. He d. June 15, 1896. Children : 

Virginia, b. May 11, 1889; James Roby, b. Feb. 25, 1891. 

M. second, Sept. 26, 1900, Frank Edward Lowe (91-xi.). 








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CHAPTER XIV. 

Ancestors of Mary Adams Russell, Second Wife of 

John Lowe. 

The closing chapter of our history will be very brief. 
The history of the Adams-Russell family is so long, and 
so interwoven wnth the early history of our state, and 
there are now so few living of the kindred of Mar^^ Adams 
Russell, second wife of John Lowe (58-i.), that a mere out- 
line of her ancestry will suffice. 

The family of Russell originated in Dorsetshire, on the 
south coast of England, and was known only as a family 
of moderate note. One William Russell was a member of 
Parliament in the reign of Edward IL, and under Henry 
VL, a descendant, Sir John Russell, was Speaker of the 
House of Commons at two different elections. 

The event which proved influential in bringing to the 
family its subsequent honors, was only a violent storm 
which separated the fleet of Philip, Archduke of Austria, 
who was on a voyage from Flanders to Spain, in the 
year 1500, and drove the Duke's vessel to the coast of 
Dorset, where she made the harbor of Weymouth. The 
governor of the town. Sir Thomas Trenchard, entertained 
Duke Philip and appointed his cousin, John Russell, to 
attend upon him and act as interpreter between Trenchard 
and his guest. Young Russell had been well educated, had 
but lately returned from the continent, and was familiar 
with the French and Spanish languages. Philip was so 
pleased with Russell's "learned discourse and generous de- 
portment" that when he went to London, at the invita- 
tion of Henry VII., he took his new friend with him and 
recommended' him as a man deserving preferment. Russell 
was at once received into favor and had many honors 
conferred upon him, for by his talents and accomplishments 



156 The Ajicestors and Their Descendants 

he proved himself worthy of every situation in which he 
was placed. Upon the accession of Henr3^ VIII. he con- 
tinued a favorite at court, and was advanced to the posts 
of Lord High Admiral and Lord Privy Seal, was made 
Knight of the Garter and created Baron of Chene\'S. On 
the death of the King, Russell was appointed one of the 
executors of his will, also a counsellor to Prince Edward 
during his minorit}^ and at the coronation of the young 
King Edward VI. he officiated as Lord High Steward. 
Two years later he was created Earl of Bedford and with 
the title were bestowed the abl)ey and grounds of the 
lately dispossessed friars of Woburn. Russell died in 1555, 
having served four successive sovereigns. 

The estate and abbey at Woburn have been in the 
possession of the descendants of John Russell to this time — 
1876. The present incumbent of the abbe^' is His Grace, 
Hastings Russell, who recently presented a portrait of 
himself to the Woburn, Mass., Iibrar3\ If one cares to 
read a description of the ducal residence, I think a file of 
"Our Paper" for 1876 may be found in the Woburn 
librar\', which contains quite a histor3' of the English 
Woburn from which the Russells emigrated to America 
and gave name to the town they incorporated, Woburn, 
Mass. 

The emigrant ancestor was Williain Russell, born in 
Dorsetshire 1570. He came to Cambridge in 1640 with 
his wife, Martha, and son Joseph, He was a millwright 
and carpenter. He died Feb. 14, 1661, leaving ten children. 

Joseph Russell, the son born in England 1636, married, 
first, June 23, 1662, Mary Belcher of Ipswich, Mass. He 
was also a carpenter and resided in Menotomy, where he 
died 1694. The wife died June 24, 1691. Of their ten 
children, Walter Russell, born April 30, 1676, married 
May 17, 1699, Mary Patten, born July 24, 1679, daugh- 
ter of Nathaniel and Sarah Cooper Patten. She died, 
leaving one son, Joseph, Jr. 

Joseph, son of Walter and Mar}- (Patten) Russell, born 
Aug. 25, 1703, married Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and 
Hannah Robbins of Cambridge, who was baptized July 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 157 

27, 1701. He was a school teacher and later in life a far- 
mer, removing in 1736 to the west part of Charlestown, 
now Somerville. Of their eight children, Walter, born Jan. 
2, 1737, married, first, Mary, daughter of David VVyman 
of Woburn ; second, Hannah, daughter of Capt. Thomas 
and Lydia (Chadwick) Adams, Dec. 17, 1761, and suc- 
ceeded to the homestead on the Charlestown side of the 
river, where he died May 5, 1782. He was a useful and 
honored citizen, noted for his integrity of character, a 
Christian gentleman, active in all civil and military life, 
taking part in the Revolutionary war. Their daughter, 
Hannah, married Isaac Hill and lived on this same home- 
stead until their removal to Ashburnham in 1797, with a 
family of five children, who all became prominent in their 
several walks of life, Isaac being governor of New Hamp- 
shire (see sketch of his life in Histor}^ of Ashburnham, 
chapter 20). The son Thomas Russell married Nov. 25, 
1788, Margaret Adams, daughter of William and Sarah 
Hill Adams of Menotomy, and removing to Ashburnham 
became the head of the Russell familv. 



Ancestors of Margaret Adams, Wife of Thomas 

Russell. 

The ancestors of Margaret Adams, wife of Thomas 
Russell, begin with John Adams, his wife Ann, and son 
Joseph, who emigrated from the south of England to 
America in 1656, coming to Plymouth, where Henry, 
belonging also to this same Devonshire family, was 
already settled. Thinking, perhaps, that Boston, lying 
between the harbors of Salem and Plymouth, might be 
more desirable, they removed thither, and the year 1658 
finds them established as large landholders and successful 
millwrights in Menotomy, later West Cambridge, and now 
Arlington. From the first thev took an active part in 
everything relating to the prosperity of Boston and its 
environment, being not only ambitious and public-spirited, 
but noted for thrift, industry and integrity of character. 



158 The Ancestors and Their Descendants. 

The descendants of John Adams maintained the famih- 
credit throughout the troublous times of the French and 
Indian wars, as well as the Revolution, until the time of 
peace enabled their children to enjo}- their heritage, for i\t 
the present day (1901) some of their lands are owned 
and occupied b}- the direct descendants of the son, Joseph 
Adams. 

John Adams, son of Henry Adams of Devonshire, Eng- 
land, died in Menotomy in 1708, aged 85 years. His 
widow^ lived until 1714. There were six children. Joseph, 
the oldest child, born in Devonshire, England, always lived 
with his parents, engaged in farming and the business of 
millwright, as well as all else that came into the labor 
of the colonists. In 1697 his father gave him a deed of 
the homestead, which was the center of the Arlington of 
to-da}'. He married Feb. 21, 1687, Margaret, daughter of 
Thomas and Mary Blanford Eams of Sudbury. She was 
carried awa}- captive b}- the Indians in her childhood, re- 
maining with them two 3^ears, was ransomed by the pay- 
ment of £40 sterling. Of their family of children we will 
only follow that of Joseph, Jr., who will be found in the 
Cambridge records as Lieut. Joseph Adams, born 1688, 
married Jan. 18, 1710. Rebecca, daughter of William and 
Rebecca (Rolfe) Cutter. She died 1717, leaving four chil- 
dren, and b\' the second wife, Rachel, there were five chil- 
dren. Lieut. Adams was a selectman of Cambridge several 
years, precinct treasurer fifteen years, and in 1750 he was 
one of a committee to renew the bounds of Cambrideg 
farm, a tract of a thousand acres of land in the easterly 
part of Ashburnham. This land was set apart for the 
maintenance of the Cambridge bridge, over Charles river. 
He died Oct. 18, 1774, aged 86. This Joseph "owned 
covenant" in Cambridge, now Harvard square. 

Thomas Adams, son of Joseph and Rebecca Cutter 
Adams, was bom in Cambridge, Aug. 20, 1713, lived there 
until his marriage to LA'dia, daughter of John Chadwick 
of Worcester, when he removed to that town, owning a 
farm near the present site of the insane as3'lum. Here 
their two children were born, Hannah, bom April 13, 1743, 



of the John Lozve Family Circle. 159 

and John, bom Jan. 22, 1745. The mother died in 1748. 
After her death Thomas returned to Menotomy and mar- 
ried a widow, Elizabeth Sanders Bowman of Lexington. 
She was the owner of a fine farm, also of two negroes, to 
whom she gave their libert3\ By this marriage there were 
three children. Thomas and his wife, Elizabeth, lived to 
advanced age and died the same year, 1802. Like most 
of the early settlers he was a military man, and rose to 
rank of captain. In the French and Indian war he en- 
listed and commanded a company of men from Cambridge 
and vicinity, which served eight months. Besides his farm- 
ing Capt. Adams was an innholder, an active, influential 
citizen, and was frequently chosen to positions of responsi- 
liility and trust. In 1764 he was precinct "Committee 
man" and assessor and the same year was one of the 
number chosen to sell the Cambridge farm, and subse- 
quently bought the larger portion, although he did not 
remove here until 1778. His youngest son always resided 
with him. This son was also a captain of the militia. 
He bequeathed his land to his children equally; and all 
with the exception of Hannah, who transferred her share 
to her son, Thomas Russell, occupied their homestead dur- 
ing their life, also some of their descendants to the third 
generation. 

Of the children of Capt. Thomas Adams, only Hannah 
claims our attention. She was reared and educated after 
the manner of all girls of those early times, as befitted 
their standing in the community, and at the age of nine- 
teen became the second wife of Walter Russell, a Christian 
gentleman, noted for industry, honesty and integrity; a 
firm patriot and an active participator in the war of the 
Revolution. He died of typhus fever, March 5, 1782, aged 
45 years, leaving the young widow with a family of eight 
children. Herein she displayed marked abihty of character, 
for her work was so well performed that they grew up to 
call her blessed, as did also the ten children to whom she 
became step-mother when she married Enos Jones ol Ash- 
burnham. She died aged 96 years, 6 months. 



160 The Ancestors and Their DescciidiDits 

Issue of Walter and Hannah (Adams) Russell: 

i. James, b. April IS, 1763, d. Feb. 13. 1846, aged 83 years. 

ii. Walter, Jr., b. May 3, 1765, d. July 15, 1846, aged 81 years. 

iii. Thomas, b. June 9. 1767, d. Aug. 19, 1823, aged 56 years. 

iv. Hannah, b. Feb. 8, 1769, d. March 1, 1847, aged 75 years. 

V. Nathaniel, b. April 15, 1774, d. Nov. 18, 1844, aged 70 years. 

vi. John, b. March 1776, settled in Fairfax, Vt. 

vii. Joseph, b. Aug. 7, 1779, settled in Lexington, Ky. 

viii. Daughter, b. Feb. 1.7, 1782. d. in infancy. 

This line now continues under the name of Russell, 
through Thomas, born June 9, 1767, who married Nov. 
25, 1788, Margaret Adams, in Menotomy, and brought 
her to his farm on Russell hill, his home, which is still in 
possession of his granddaughter. Here were reared a 
happy and prosperous family of eight children, but the 
father's death, Aug. 19, 1823, would have left a heavy 
burden upon the little mother had it not been for the de- 
votion of her children, wliich never failed ; even to the 
close of her long life the tender care and untiring love of 
her youngest daughter, Mary, and her family, left nothing 
to be desired. Her death occurred Aug. 12, 1854, aged 84 
years, 9 months. 

Issue of Thomas and Margaret (Adams) Russell : 

i. Margaret, b. April 19, 1789; d. March 29, 1865. 

ii. Thomas, b. Oct. 23, 1791; d. May 7, 1838. 

iii. James, b. Dec. 30, 1793; d. Nov. 29, 1859. 

iv. Walter, b. June 29, 1796; d. May 5, 1856. 

V. Sarah A., b. March 15, 1799. 

vi. Susan, b. Dec. 19, 1801. 

vii. Charles, b. Sept. 10, 1804; d. June 23, 1865. 

viii. Mary Adams, b. Jan. 21, 1811. 

In this family were fifty-three grandchildren, of whom 
only seven are now living (Feb. 21, 1901). 

Charles Russell, born Sept. 10, 1804; married Nov. 4, 
1829, Sarah Phillips, daughter of Samuel Phillips, brother 
of Betsey (Phillips) Messinger. She died Jan. 31, 1838, 
leaving three children. He married, second, July 12, 1838, 
Harriet Stone Farrar, daughter of John and Eunice 
(Cummings) Farrar of Barre. She was a true grand- 



of the John Lowe Family Circle. 161 

mother to her step-grandchildren, who hold her in loving 
remembrance. She died Jan. 21, 1885, aged 74 years, 4 
months, 13 days, leaving tvt'o children. 

Issue of Charles and Sarah (Phillips) Russell: 

i. Sarah Amanda, b. Dec. 4, 1830; m. March 31, 1852, George 
F. Carter of Leominster; d. in Denver, Col., Nov. 7, 1896, 
and is buried in Fairmount Park, Colorado. She left three 
children, who reside in Denver 

ii. Caroline Lowe, b. Nov. 8, 1833; m. March 11, 1857, Charles 
K; Sawyer and resided on the Russell farm in West Fitch- 
burg; d. March 26, 1901. 

iii. Charles, b. July 15, 1836; m. Dec, 1866, Jennie McDonough ; 
d. Sept. 14, 1893, leaving three sons, the only ones to bear 
the Russell name in this line. 

Issue \iy second wife, Harriet Stone Farrar: 

iv. Mary Adams, b. July 20, 1840, who is the second wife of 

John (58-i.) Lowe, 
v. John Wesley, b. Nov. 30, 1842, d. unmarried May 5, 1894. 



Ancestry of Harriet Stone F'arrar, Wife of Charles 

Russell. 

The Farrars were of Scotch descent and w^ere among 
the early settlers of Concord and Barre. The great-grand- 
father of Mary Adams (Russell) Lowe was one of the 
large farmers (yeoman, as they are called in the early 
deeds) of the town of Barre, where he reared his family 
of five children, three daughters and two sons. John, the 
youngest by several years, was born 1780, and grew up 
as much of a pet with the family as was allowed by stern 
ideas of Scotch discipline. He certainly caught the spirit 
of liberty and independence, for when the war of 1812 
broke out he promptly enlisted and remained until peace 
was declared. In his 24th year he married Eunice Cum- 
mings of Hardwick, whose acquaintance had begun on 
his regular round of shoemaking. As a boy he had been 
taught with good Scotch thrift, that trade, and as was 
the custom in those days, shoemakers and tailoresses went 
from house to house and remained until the winter needs 

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162 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

were supplied. It was a slow but social sort of a w^a^' of 
meeting demands with supplies, but illustrates verj^ forci- 
bly the times in which they lived, but never thought of 
calling them hard. Is it possible for the present genera- 
tion to appreciate the energy, perseverance and gratitude 
that sustained such a cheerful and happj^ spirit in our 
forefathers ? 

Eunice Cummings, like her husband, John Farrar, was 
the youngest, the three older sisters having married and 
gone over to the new town of Westminster. So after their 
marriage the Cummings home became his headquarters, 
while he plied his trade after the sowing, and later the 
harvesting was done. 

In 1806, Aug. 20, Joel, their oldest child was born, 
and Sept. 8, 1810, the onh' other ever given to them. 
She was named Harriet Stone. None could guess the 
changes and trials lying before this happy family circle, 
and 3'et there was nothing wrong, but only what the con- 
stant daily turn of fortune brought to their lives. Since 
the close of the Revolutionary war the spirit of patriotism 
had greatly increased by the events that followed, so how 
could John do otherwise than join the brave men and give 
his time and strength to his country's service on the fron- 
tier; so he enlisted for the war of 1812, and the brave 
wife and mother said she would rear the children and 
work while awaiting his return. Brave soul ! she could 
not know it would be seven long \'ears before the}' should 
meet again. Such are the fortunes of \var. An3'one famil- 
iar with the history of that war and the almost impos- 
sible communication with friends at home, can imagine the 
wearing anxiety and heartache with which those left at 
home worked and waited. After two or three years the 
older sisters, who were well settled on large farms in 
Westminster, urged Eunice to bring her two children and 
stay with them for a change till John should come, saying 
she could earn enough to pay her wa^- by spinning and 
weaving and general housekeeping, so she went, placing 
her boy, now ten years old, with a Willard family, who 



of iJic Jo Jin Loive Family Circle. 163 

always "kept" a boy to do the chores. This was the 
same Willard with whom David Lowe was placed after 
the death of his parents. She made her home with her 
sister and went out, taking her Httle girl when circum- 
stances allowed. All went well for another year or two, 
when the hard work and unceasing anxiety for her hus- 
band's safety and return, and the loss of her own home 
and separation from her children, for now the little girl 
was being cared for between the families, so broke her 
down in health and spirits that it was a bitter shock that 
met the husband wdien at last, discharged from the ser- 
vice, he hastened to his family. It was too late, however, 
to save her life, and she died of cancer, 1822, aged 40 
years. He never recovered from this bitter experience 
enough to marry again, but was true to her memory and 
his happy earh' life until his death, which occurred in 
1862. After his wife's death he took up his trade of shoe- 
making again, never remaining long in one place, but al- 
ways returning to his boyhood's home, where he spent the 
last few years of his life. 

After Eunice (Cummings) Farrar's death, her son Joel, 
well grown and strong of his age at seventeen, rebelled 
against his hard fare, as did all others who were com- 
pelled to endure it, and ran away and shipped for a sail- 
or, and nothing was seen or heard from him for twenty- 
four years, when he returned to Boston, where he left his 
wife and four children, and hastened to Westminster to 
learn that only a few old friends and relatives were left. 
He also learned that his sister was well married and set- 
tled on the Phillips homestead with her family. The meet- 
ing between the middle-aged brother and sister is better 
imagined than described. He promptly secured employ- 
ment near her, and within one week, with wife and chil- 
dren, was settled in a comfortable tenement, where he 
lived until a cottage of his own was complete. The story 
of those years is very interesting; in brief, it covers his 
service as cabin boy and general fag on his first trip, his 
transfer later to the navy, his service on the Constitution, 



164 TJie Ancestors and Their Descendants 

where he was wounded by rupture of the bowels, from 
which he never fulh^ recovered. After an honorable dis- 
charge, having no home ties to hold him to this country, 
he finally drifted to Australia, then almost a new country. 
Being pleased with place, climate and people, he hired out 
to a farmer, a Scotchman, who was a large landowner 
and raised large flocks of sheep near Melbourne. While 
here he met Rose Cameron, and with all the promptness 
of a sailor soldier proceeded to woo and win her for his 
wife. After several years of service, his longing for his 
own kindred and native hills impelled him to gather up 
his treasures and return, as he did just when the gold 
fever was turning the tide of immigration to that far-off 
island and delightful country. Of the four children, only 
two grew up. The elder, a son, enlisted at sixteen years 
of age in the Civil war and served an enlistment after- 
wards in the regular army. After being honorably dis- 
charged he was engaged in bridge building until his death. 
The last in our line of the family name, the daughter, 
married well and is now living in Worcester. 

After her mother's health failed a home was provided 
for Harriet Stone Farrar with a Mandell family in Barre, 
where she was to work for her board and clothes and 
three months' schooling until she was eighteen years old. 
The Mandells were a wealthy family in those times and it 
was a desirable home for the motherless little girl, but 
death entered and took the beloved father, the upright 
citizen and Christian gentleman, and Harriet was again 
returned to her aunt in Westminster, but not for long was 
she to be moving about from one place to another, for Dr. 
Kendall, whose residence was in Leominster, had become 
deeply interested in the brave, sunny, generous-hearted 
girl, and secured her a permanent home in the family of 
Esquire William Perry of Leominster, which was a home 
indeed, and remained so until her marriage to Charles Rus- 
sell, while as long as life lasted the daughters proved true 
and constant friends. She was the second wife of Charles 
RuSvSell and mother of Mary Adams Russell, second wife 
of John Lowe (58-i.). 



of the John Lozue Family Circle. 166 

These short sketches cannot do justice to the Hves of 
those early .settlers, who wrought better than they knew. 
The incidents, amusing and pathetic, with all the tradi- 
tions of the families, would fill a volume, but such as they 
are, are submitted with loving reverence. 



^===^^CULy^ yf Aj. dOinx.-^ 



APPENDIX. 

DEED OF LAND OF DAVID LOWE TO ABEL F. 

ADAMS. 

Know all men by these presents that I, David Low, of 
Fitchburg, in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts, Mason, in consideration of four hun- 
dred twenty-six dollars and thirty-three cents paid by 
Abel F. Adams of said Fitchburg, yeoman, the receipt 
whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, 
sell and convey unto the said Abel F. Adams, his heirs 
and assigns, a certain tract of land situated in said Fitch- 
burg, containing seven acres and ninety-five rods, and 
bounded as follows, viz.: Beginning at the southwesterly 
corner of said tract at a chestnut tree, thence east, six 
degrees south, forty-five and a half rods to a stake and 
stone, thence north, 20 degrees east, twenty-six rods to a 
stake and stones, thence west, seventy-seven degrees south, 
forty-one rods to a stake and stones, thence south, 25 
degrees west, thirty-six rods and one-quarter on land of 
Samuel Hawes to the bound first mentioned ; reserving to 
the public the right of passing across the same as the 
road is now laid out. 

To have and to hold the afore granted Premises to the 
said Abel F. Adams, his heirs and assigns, to his and 
their use and Behoof forever. 

And I do for myself, my Heirs, Executors and Admin- 
istrators, covenant with the said Abel F. Adams, his heirs 

and assigns That I am lawfully seized in fee of the 

afore granted premises ; that they are free of all incum- 
brances except as aforesaid. 

That I have good right to sell and convey the same 
to the said Abel F. Adams, and that I will warrant and 
defend the same premises to the said Abel F. Adams, his 



168 Appendix. 

heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and 
demands of all persons except the road aforesaid. 

In witness whereof, I, the said David Low and Louisa 
A, Low, wife of the said David, w^ho hereby relinquishes 
all right of dowser in the premises, have hereunto set our 
hands and seals this sixteenth day of August, in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty. 




Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us, 
Geo. B. Arnold, 

E. TORREY. 

Worcester, ss. August 16, 1830. 

Then the above named David Lowe acknowledged the 
above to be his free act and deed. 
Before me, 

Ebenezer Torrey, Justice of Peace. 



Appendix. \{\\) 

AN APOSTROPHE TO THE OLD ELM. 

[Page 1+8.] 



Dear old elm, how majestic thou art, 

III our festival to-(la\' thine is the noble part. 

In thy young life, when just a mere toy. 

Thou wert brought from the swamp 

On the back of a boy. 

Beside his own home he made one for thee; 

Nurtured and cared for, thou'rt beautiful to see. 

For three score years and ten 

He guarded thee with care. 

He saw long branches bending low, 

And waving proud in air. 

Thy guardian our honored sire, 
With every virtue rife. 
Bid thee adieu at eighty-six 
To join his loving wife. 

Thus generations come and go, 

The sixth with winning face, 

Each in its turn thy shadow blest. 

Each year new beauties crowned thy place. 

Wave on, old tree, wave on 

In all thy grandeur and thy grace; 

Wave on, blessing, as thou hast ever done, 

The human race. 

We thank thee, brave old sentinel. 

For faithful vigil round the homestead door; 

No thief has entered the sacred place 

For a hundred years and more; 

Wave on in all thy glory and thy pride. 

Old tree, wave on ; old, yet ever young, 
We'll love thee while we live, 
And praise thee in our song. 

And thou, dear, sainted Grandsire, 

We thank thee for the lessons of justice and truth 

Which thou so richly bequeathed to us 

In the days of childhood and youth. 



170 Appendix. 

And Thou, Most Holy One, we thank Thee 

For the inspiration of this day. 

O teach us, Thy children, and lead us 

In Wisdom's pleasant way ; 

And, Our Father in Heaven, 

Make us, thy children, pure in thy sight. 

Strengthen in every word and work 

To battle for the right. 

Mary Taylor. 
Boxboro, July 4, 1883. 



Appendix. 171 

GOLDr:N WBDDING. 
March 29, 1S49. March 29, 1S99. 



Adelbert Mead and Alniira Iloar were wedded fifty years ajjo. 
Fifty years of summer's heat, fifty years of winter's snow; 
Fifty years side by side they have stood, 
Enduring the evil, enjoying the good. 

Muddy, dark and rainy on their wedding eve, outside; 
Inside, merry friends, happy husband and lovely bride. 
In memory I see this coinfortable home, so nice by Adelbert and Almira 

made; 
I see the grand furnishings, the elegant silver and pretty things displayed. 

Five little ones came, one by one. 

To cheer and bless this happy home. 

Three of the little ones who had gladdened this home with love 

Were soon called to the Father's beautiful home above. 

Heartaches and sorrows were theirs. 

In v^^hich no kindred or friend ever shares. 

Estella and Henry were left to their kindest care. 

Of which each received their rightful share. 

Time passed a score of years, 
With its joys and sorrows, hopes and fears. 
Loving each the other more day by day, 
As months and years passed away. 

Then came an angel — from heaven this angel came — 
And once again he entered this happy home. 
It was Henry, their dearly beloved and only son, 
Whom he called, and from out their sight he went 
With the angel whom the Lord had sent. 

In vain his mother prayed, his father plead. 

"Mj' Father hath need of him," the angel said. 

Thus Henry went, bidding dear ones good-b3'e. 

Saying, "We will meet again in our Father's home on high." 

Made desolate was this pleasant home; sadness reigned supreme 
In the place where joy and gladness so long had been ; 
Estella, their dearly loved daughter, now the only one left 
Of the five little ones— two sons and two daughters they have been 
bereft. 



172 Appendix. 

Estella, with husband and children — four little girls and one little boy — 
Came to this lonely home to bring back to father and mother love and 

joy- 

Our Father, Estella and her family will bless 

For all their loving care and tenderness. 

What the parents gave to their children of themselves; 

The noblest and best, 

Was transferred to the grandchildren now in the home nest. 

Thus days, weeks, months and years have passed. 
And now they come to fifty 3'ears at last, 
Beloved by children, grandchildren, sisters and brothers, 
Loved, honored and respected h\ all others. 

May Heaven's choicest blessings be yours 

As long as life with its duty endures; 

May that peace which passeth understanding 

Come to you at your commanding, 

Is the wish of Sister Maria. 

Maria Mead Patch, (151-iv.). 



INDEX 



INDEX. 



Adams, Abel F., 34. 167. 168. 

, Elizabeth Sanders Bowman, 1 v59. 

, Hannah. 158, 159. 

, Henry, 157, 158. 

, John, 157, 158, 159. 

, Joseph, Jr.. 158. 

, Joseph, 158. 

, Lvdia (Chadwick). 157. 

, Lydia (Chadwick), 158. 

, Margaret (Earns), 158. 

. Rachel, 158. 

, Rebecca (Cutter). 158. 

, Sarah (Hill), 157. 

, Capt. Thomas, 157. 

, Thomas, 158. 159. 

. William, 157. 

Aitchison, Harry, 75. 

, Lester Cobleigh, 75. 

, Ma}' Josephine (Lowe) (73-vi.), 

41, 75. 
-, Willard Lowe. 75. 



Allen, George O., 49. 

, Capt. John, 19. 

Andrews, Artemas, 107. 
Anthony, Mark. 11. 
Arnold, George B., 168. 
Aver, Rev. Oliver, 125. 

B.xGLKY, Carrie Susan (Lowe) (69-i.), 
41, 74. 

, Col Jonathan, 117. 

, Benjamin Greene, 74. 

, Goldie Lowe, 74. 

Bailey, James, Jr., 82. 

, Harrison. 43. 

Baker, Rev. William, 31. 
Ball, John, 96. 
Bancroft. David. 107. 

, Susan (Messinger), 107. 

Barker, Christopher, 13. 
Barnard, Appleton, 120. 

, Elizabeth, 120. 

Bartow, Samuel B. Jr., 62. 
Bates, James, 113. 
Beeder, Thomas, 16. 
Bigelow, John, 86, 98. 
Blake, Rev. S. L., 59. 
Blodgett, Louisa E., 78. 



Blood, .\hnira S.. 74. 
Boardman, Widow Anna, 18. 
Boreman, Thomas, 13, 17. 
Borman, Margaret, 16. 
Boston, William, 92. 
Bowers, Perciva! R.. 70. 

, Susan Amelia (Lowe), 70. 

Bowker, George, 26. 

, Marv Thurston (Upton), 26. 

Breck, Edward, 96. 
Breckenridge. George W.. 33. 

, Gertrude Louisa (Davis) (42-i.), 

30. 33. 

Robert Davis, 33. 



Bronson, Rev. S. J.. 32. 

Brooks, Rev. C. S., 65, 67. 

Brown, Ada Blanche (Mead) (163- 

iv.), 124, 139. 

, Alfred, 124. 

, B. P., 62. 

, James, 124. 

, L. J., 63. 

, Marv, 17. 

, Mildred Blanche, 139. 

, Sadie Anna Betsev (Mead), 124. 

, Wallace Alden. 139. 

Bumam, Thomas, 20. 

Burke, Mr., 90, 91. 

Burrage, Edwin Augustus, 27. 

, Henry Svveetser, 27. 

, Jonathan, 26. 27. 

, Marv Thurston (Upton) (20- 

ii.), 25-27. 
-, Thomas Fairbanks, 27. 



, William Upton, 27. 

Butters, Chauncej^ Webb, 138. 

, Ellen Sophia (Stevens) (157- 

iii.), 123, 138. 
, Nellie Stevens, 138. 

Carter, George P., 161. 

, Sarah .\manda (Russell), 161. 

Cate, Curtis Wolsev, 33. 

, Gertrude (Curtis), 33. 

, Kate Springer, 33. 

, Martha, 33 

. Martha Gertrude (Curtis) (39- 

vi.), 29, 33. 



176 



Index. 



Gate, Martin Luther, 33. 

, Philip Thurston, 33. 

Chadwick, John, 158. 
Chamberlain, Jacob, 151. 

, Susanna (Stone), 151. 

Champlin, Rev. J. T., D. D., 27. 
Childs, Austin Sereno, 37. 

, Mary Hawes (Lowe), 37, 108. 

, Webster, 57. 

Choate, Mary (Low). 22. 

, Sarah (Low), 19. 

, Stephen, 22. 

Clark, WilHam, 150. 

Coddington, William, 15. 

Colburn, Estella Brown (Lowe). 39. 

, Irving W., 39. 

Collamore, Mavor, 40. 

, Mrs , 40. ' 

Conant, Amelia Breck, 125. 

, Anna Jane, 125. 

, Anna (Stevens) (134-i.), 120, 

123. 
-, Annie Whitney (Mead) (140- 



iii.), 121, 125. 
— , Benjamin, 125 
— , Ellen Sherwin, 125. 
— , Elmer Kimball, 125. 
— , Frances S., 123. 
— , George, 123. 
— , George Arthur. 125. 
— , Harriet M., 123. 
-, Henry, 125. 



, Levi, 125. 

, Levi Seward, 125. 

, Marv L, 123. 

, Sarah S., 123. 

, Sherman, 125. 

-, Conant, Susan E., 123. 



Condy, William, 15. 
Conrad, Rev. W. O., 55, 67. 
Coppyn, John, 15. 
Cowdin, Thomas, 85. 
Craddock, Mr., 15, 16. 
Craft or Croft, Eleazer, 18. 
Crafts or Croft, Martha (Low), 18. 
Cromwell, 99. 
Cuddahy & Co., 52. 
Cunningham, Anna Frances (161-i.), 
124, 139. 

, Bernice Frances, 139. 

, Leo Clement, 139. 

, Philip, 139. 

, Robert Philip, 139. 

, Stella Mead, 139. 

, Wallace Emery, 139. 

Curtin, John .\ndrew, 32. 

, Mabel Whyte (Curtis), 32. 

Curtis, Agnes Gove (Whyte), 32. 
, Charles Wilraot, 29. 



Curtis, Edwin Upton (40-vii.), 29,33. 

, Frances, 33. 

, Genevieve Frances (Young), 33. 

, George, 28, 29. 

, George Francis, 29. 

, George Herbert. 29. 

, George Oliver, 32 

, Henry Clifford (38-iv ), 29, 32. 

, Margaret Maud (Waterman), 

33. 
, Martha ,\nn (Upton) (23-viii ), 

25, 28, 29. 

, Mary Abby, 29. 

, Nelson, 33 

, Nelson (41-viii.), 29, 33. 

, Priscilla, 33. 

, Susan Thurston, 29. 

Cutler, Abigail (Lowe), 22. 

, David, 140 

, David Adelbert, 141. 

. Dr. WilHam H., 22. 

, Emma Cushing, 140. 

, Estella Augusta (Mead) (167- 

ii.), 128. 140, 171, 172. 

, Ethel Mead, 140. 

, James, 117. 

, Rebecca (Rolfe), 158. 

, William, 158. 

, Zelia .\lmira, 141. 

Day, Stephen, 94. 
Davidson, Daniel, 16. 

, Margaret (Low), 16. 

Davies, Rev. R. V., 59. 
Davis, Aaron, 112. 

, Capt. Jonathan, 119. 

, Bessie C, 30. 

, Edward J., 29, 30. 

, Grace Upton, 30. 

, Louisa Adeline (Upton) (29-v.), 

26, 29, 30. 

, Walter E., 30 

Dermody, Annie L 

43, 77. 

, George W., 77. 

, James E., 77. 

, "Warren E., 77. 

Dexter, John C, 67. 

Dickinson, Alary (Lowe), 109. 

Diconson, Benjamin, 15. 

Dodge, Henrietta Estella (Cutler), 

140. 

, Prof. Raymond, 140. 

Dodger, David, 17. 

, Johannah (Low), 17. 

, Richard, 17. 

Doten, Charles Henry, 63, 64, 67. 

, Edward, 64. 

, Faith (Clark), 64. 



(Steele) (80-i.), 



Index. 



177 



Doten, Frances Helen (Mackenzie), 

64, 65. 
Downe, Dea. Tiniotliv P., 27. 

, Mr. E. P., 4-4-. 

Dunnels, Rev. A. F . 56. 7U. 
Button, Thomas, 20. 

Eams, Mary (Blanford), 158. 

, Thomas. 15S. 

Eddv, Jonathan, 145. 

Elliott. John. 82. 

Emerson. Rev. .Alfred. 28, aS. 46, 51, 

71, 130. 
Esterbrooks, Mary (Low), It). 



Fairbanks, Georfi;e, 93. 

, Jacob, 112. 

, lacob Horatio, 112. 

, John, 52. 

, Jonas, 98, 101, 102. 

, Joseph, 117. 

, Joshua, 9S, 101. 

, Lydia (Phillips), 112. 

Lydia (Prescott) (111-vi.). 



101, 



102 



Phineas, 152. 
Sarah (Stone). 152. 



152. 



F'allass, Hannah (Stone), 

, William, 152. 

Farnsworth, Emilv M. (Upton) (29- 

Y.), 26. 

, John Marshall, 26. 

, Mary (Prescott), 104. 

, Matthias, 150. 

, Rev. James D., 46, 130. 

Farr, Sarah Stone, 151. 

, Stephen, 151. 

, Rev. Jonathan, 119. 

Farrar, Eunice (Cummings), 160-163. 

, Joel, 162. 

, John, 160-162. 

, Rose (Cameron), 164. 

Farvi'ell, John, 46. 

Faulkner, Eunice (Stone), 152. 

, Jonas, 152. 

Fessenden, Judge Franklin G., 50. 
Fish, Miss Jennie, 32. 
Fisher, Ezra, 107. 

, Nancy (Messinger), 107. 

Forbush, Annie Louise (166-ii.), 

127, 140. 

, Frank AL, 140. 

, Robert Lewis, 140. 

, Walter Alfred, 140. 

Foster, Anne, 9. 

, Ensign, 114. 

, Mr., 114. 

Fox, Mr., 46. 
12 



Fuller, Abbv Caroline (r|)ton) (.'51- 
X.), 26, 30. 

, Alice Cora, 30. 

, Simeon, 30. 

Galk, Rev. C. R., 70, 7S. 
Garrett, Harmon, 94. 
Gee, Rev. Josiah, 19. 
Giddings. Job, 21 . 
Gidding, Thomas, 20. 
Glcason. Jane (t. (Wood), ;{5. 
Goodhue, Abigail. 17. 

, Jdseph, 17. 

Goodridge, Benjamin, 21. 

, Hannah (Low), 19. 

Goodwin, Charlotte (Lowe), 22. 

, David, 22. 

Green, Eleazer, 1 04. 

, Elizabeth (Prescott), 104. 

, ^L^rv, 104. 

, William, 104. 

Grover, John, 17. 
Guillim, John, 9. 

Hadlock, Nathaniel, 96. 
Hagar, George, 120. 

, Sally (Mead), 120. 

Hale, Joseph, 17. 

Hall, Mr. Arthur H., 49. 

, Widow Mar3\ 114. 

Hamlin, Annie (Mavo), 111. 

, Asia, 112. 

, Benjamin, 111. 

, Eleazer, 111. 112. 

. George. 112. 

, Green, 112. 

, Isaac, 112. 

, Lvdia (Bonnev), 111, 112. 

, M'ary, 111. 

, Mrs." Hannah (Fletcher), 111. 

, Mrs. Sarah (Brvant), 112. 

, Mrs. Sarah (Sobdel) (Brvant), 

111. 

, Sallv, 112. 

, Samuel. 112. 

-, James, 111. 



Hammond & Co., 52. 
Hanson, Charles H., 153. 

, Joseph, 153. 

, Vienna (Stone), 153. 

Harding, Anna Rebecca (Mead), 122. 

, Charles, 122. 

Harrington, Carl Rogers, 68, 81. 

, George, 68. 

, Harold Leon, 68, 81. 

, James Lewis, 67, 68, 81. 

, Lewis Lowe, 68, 81. 

, Martha (Lewis), 68. 

, Ruth Louise, 68, 81. 



178 



Tjidex. 



Harrington, Sarah Abbie (Merriani) 

(102-i.), 49, 67, 68, 80, 81. 
Harris, Richard, Jr., 116. 
Hartvvell, Kdward, 20. 

, Phinehas, 35, 79. 

Hawes, Lvdia (Messinger), 35, 66, 

108. 

, Robert, 35. 

, Samuel, 34, 35, 66, 108. 

, Polly or Mary (Low), 85. 

Hayward, Adelaide F. (Lowe) (70- 

ii.), 41, 74. 

, Frances Nellie, 74. 

, George Lincoln, 74. 

, Joseph Lowe, 74. 

, Lillian Caroline, 74. 

, Ralph Lowe, 74. 

, William A., 74. 

, William Clark, 74. 

Henderson, Sarah, 21. 

, WilHam, 20, 21, 24. 

Hill, Isaac, 157. 

, Hannah (Russell), 157. 

Hills, Nathaniel, 74. 
Hitchcock, Annie Louise, 43. 

, Carrie B. (Walker), 76, 77. 

, Elizabeth Phelps (Lowe) (56- 

ix.), 37, 43. 

, George Alfred, 43. 

-, George Preston (79-i ), 43, 76, 



77. 
-, Hilda, 77. 



Hobert, Martha (Prescott), 104. 

, Rev. Gershom, 104. 

, Shubael, 1 04-. 

Holden, Abigail (Stone), 151. 

, Nathaniel, 151. 

Holmes, Rev. Clement E., 67. 

Hotten, John Camden, 14. 

Houghe, Atterton, 15. 

Houghton, Abbie Frances (Good- 
ridge), 126. 

, Elizabeth (Mead) (131-vi.), 119, 

121, 146. 

, Levi. 119, 129. 

, Nabby (Mead), 119, 121, 146. 

, Phineas Whitcomb, 149. 

, Ralph, 96, 117. 

, Reuben, 119, 121. 

, Reuben Newell, 121. 

, Sarah Jane (Topliff), 126. 

, Sarah (Mead), 119. 

, Sarah Stone (Taylor), 149, 153. 

, William Stevens (142-ii.), 121, 

126. 

Howe, Anna A., 127. 

, Charlev, 127. 

, David C, 126, 127. 



Howe.Lucinda (Mead) (145-v.), 122, 

126, 127. 
Hubbard, Arthur Willis, 72. 

, Leila Adams, 72. 

Hurlston, Mr. Nichols, 15. 
Huling, Ray Greene, 64. 
Hunts, Samuel, 20. 
Hutchinson, Gov., 89. 

Ives, Elizabeth (Mead), 121. 
, Mr., 121. 

Jackson, Edmond, 15. 
Jewell, Dexter, 51 
Johnson, Rev. Daniel, 119. 
Jones, Enos, 159. 

Kendall, Dr., 164. 

Kennedy, Eliza Maud May, 76. 

, George Edward, 76. 

, Georgiana Maud May (Lowe) 

(78-i.), 42, 76. 

, J., 76. 

-, James Frederic, 76. 



Kerley, William, 96. 
Kilham, Mrs. Edward A., 13, 17. 
Kimball, Elizabeth (Low), 19 
King, Thomas, 93, 94, 117. 
Kingsbury, Ermina Louisa (Mead), 
126. 

, George F., 126. 

Kinsman. Jeremiah, 36, 107. 

, Olive (Messinger), 36, 107. 

Knapp, Lucv Edith (Lowe), 69. 
, William, 69. 

Lamb, Caleb, 82, 83. 

, Dorothy Harbottle, 82. 

, Elizabeth, 82. 

, Eunice, 82, 83. 

, Huldah, 82, 83. 

, Jeremiah, 82. 

, John, 82, 83. 

, Mary (Wise), 82. 

, Thomas, 82, 83. 

Lawrence, Anne (Tarbell), 104. 

, John, 104. 

, Susannah (Prescott), 104. 

, William, 104. 

Leavens, Eben N., 29. 

, Frank N.. 29. 

, Ida M. (Farlee), 29. 

, Jane Augusta (Upton) (28-iii.), 

26, "29. 
Leverett, Thomas, 15. 
Lewis, Sarah (Stone), 152. 
, Seth, 152. 



hldi 



ex. 



170 



Lincoln, Rev. Calvin, 28. 

, Rev. Varnum, 28. 

Linton, Richard, 96. 
Littlefield, Jacob, 149. 

, Nancy (Taylor), 14-9. 153. 

, Sheldon, 14-9. 

Littlehale, Howard Milton, 75. 

, Leon Willard, 75. 

, Nellie Maria (Lowe) (72-iv.), 

41, 75. 

, Robert Lowe, 75. 

-, Roy O., 75. 



Locke, Joseph, 115. 

, Margaret (Mead), 115. 

Loker, John, 102. 

, Mary (Draper), 102. 

Longley, John, 104. 

, Sarah (Prescott), 104. 

Lothrop, John Johnson, 123. 

, Mary (Mead), 123, 149. 

Lovell, Florence, 70. 
Low. Abigail, 18, 19, 22. 

, Abigail (14-iii), 8, 22-24, 79. 

, Abigail (Choate), 23. 

, Abigail (Vamey), 18, 22, 23. 

, Abraham (ll-xiv ), 20, 22. 

, Anna, 19. 

, Benjamin, 19. 

, Benoni, 19, 23. 

, Caleb, 22. 

, Caleb (10-iii.), 18, 22. 23. 

, Captain John, 13, 15, 16. 

, Catherine, 22. 

, Clarissa (Thurston), 36. 

, Daniel W., 13, 15. 

, David, 19, 23. 

, David (6-iv.), 8, 16, 18, 82, 83. 

, David, Jr. (9-i.), 8, 18, 20-24. 

, David (12-ii.), 22, 23. 

, Dorcas (Eleroy), 19. 

, Ebenezer, 22. 

, Elizabeth, 17. 

, Elizabeth (Fellows), 19. 

, Elizabeth (Robinson), 19. 

, Eunice, 18. 

, Frances, 20. 

, Frances (48-ii.), 36, 38. 

, James, 20. -- 

, Jeremiah, 18, 22. 

, Johannah, 18, 19. 

, [ohn, 9, 14, 16, 19. 

, John (7-iv.), 17, 19. 

, Jonathan, 19. 

, Tonathan (5-iii.), 17, 18, 20. 

, Jonathan (8-vi.), 18, 19, 21. 

, Joseph, 19 

, Joseph (43-i.), 35, 36. 

, Joshua, 18. 

, Josiah, 19. 



Low, fudith (I)av), 19. 

Lydia (C.ilbert), IS. 

Margaret, IS. 

Martha, 17, 18, 22. 

Martha (Borman), 8. 13, 16. 

Martha (Story), 22. 

Mary, 18, 22. 

Mary (Allen), 19. 

Marv (Kiggs), 19. 

iMary (Lamb), s, is, S2, s;{. 

Mary (Thomson), IS, L'O. 

Nathan, 22. 

Nathaniel, 17, 19. 

Nichole de, 10. 

Richanna, 19. 

Samuel, 17, 20. -^ 

Saralj, 17. 

Sarah (Davies), 17. 

Sarah (Gee), 19. 

Sarah (Low), 18. 

Sarah (Perkins), 19. 

Sarah (Synionds), 13, 17. 

Sarah (Thorndike), 13, 16. 

Simond, 17. 

Stephen, 18. 

Susannah, IS, 22. 

Susannah .\llen, 19. 

Susannah (Butler), 18. 

Susannah (Low), 8, 13, 14, 16, 
22. 

Thomas, 17, 22. 

Thomas (1-i.), 8, 13, 15, 16. 

Thomas (2-ii.), 8. 9, 13, 14, 
, 17. 

Thomas (4-i.), 13, 17. 

William, 19, 20, 22. 
Lowe, Abbie Lucretia, 39. 

Abbie Louise, 69. 

Abraham Thomson, 23. 

Augustus, 36. 

Albert Nathaniel (85-v.), 3, 7, 
47, 48, 54, 55, 130. 

Albert Waldo, 53. 

Amelia Frances (Robbins), 73, 



20 



16 



8, 



74 



70 



61 



7, 



Amelia Frances (Vose), 26, 69, 



Ann Maria (Stone), -3, 7, 54, 
, 154. 

Annie Elizabeth, 42. 

Annie Elizabeth (Parkhill), 3, 

55, 56. 

Annie Louisa, 70. 

Annie Margaret, 56. 

Arthur Houghton (S6-vi.), 3, 
5,' 7, 8, 47, 48, 52, 55. 56, 60, 62, 
180. 

— , Austin Childs (9S-ii.), 69, 77. 
— , Beatrice, 54. 



180 



Index. 



Lowe, Bertha, 61. 

Bertha Mav, 7+. 
Bertie, 53. ' 
Bessie Edna, 53. 
Betsey (Phelps), 36. 
Calvin Messinger (59-iii.), 
, 69. 

Carlos Webster, 77. 
Carlos William (99-viii.), 



44 



77 



70 



61 



54 



78 



38, 



69, 



Caroline Augusta (Hall), 41. 
Carroll Henry, 76. 
Celia Adelaide, 70. 
Charles (53-ii.), 36, 42. 
Charles Henry, 42. 
Charles HenrV (65-ii.), 39, 72. 
Charles Herbert, 72., 
Charles Samuel, 73. 
Charlotte Emma, 55. 
Charlotte (Hale), 22. 
Christie Lawson, J7. 
Clara E., 42. 
Clara Luella, 70. 
Cordelia (Burdett), 23. 
Daniel, 38. 

Daniel (44-iii.), 35, 36. 
Daniel A., 36. 
Daniel Clark, 38. 
David (46-v.), 8, 26, 34, 35. 
38, 44, 65, 107, 108, 163, 167, 



168. 



David Sawyer (57-iv.), 26. 
David Sawyer (60-iv.), 38, 69, 

David (93-xiii.), 4, 6, 7, 8, 47, 

Delia Eliza, 70. 
Dennis Flint (49-i.). 36, 39. 
Donald Vaughn, 59. 
Doris Josephine, 74. 
Edna Louisa, 71. 
Edward Goodell, 69. 
Edward L, 77. 
Eleanor, 65. 
Ehza B. (Burr), 23. 
Ella E. (Tail), 71. 
Elvira Annie, 42. 
Elvira Alahala, 37. 
Emerett E., 39. 
Emma B. (Gould), 23. 
Emma Rebecca (Palmer), 3, 7, 
. 55. 

Ernest Palmer, 55. 
Erving Fiske, 55. 
Ethel A. (Hills). 74. 
Eugene Francis (101-iii.), 70. 

Eva Gertrude. 72. 
Florence, 42. 



47 



73 



Lowe, Florence Allisia (Webber), 4, 
7, 56, 57. 

Florence Henrietta, 73. 
Florence Josephine, 53. 
Frances C. (Thurston), 41, 42. 
Frances Helen, 65. 
Frances Ida (Boutelle), 77, 78. 
Frances Irving, 73. 
Frances Duane, 72. 
Fi-ank Edward (91-xi.), 4, 7, 
48, 60, 62, 130, 154. 
Frank Preston, (76-vi. ), 42, 76. 
Freda Emoline (Wolf), 73. 
Frederic Henr3', 70. 
Frederic Messenger (68-i.), 41, 
74. 

George, 38, 46. 
George Austin, 77. 
George Francis, (64-i.), 39, 72. 
George Henry, 23. 
George Herbert, 42. 
George Preston (54-vi.), 37, 42. 
George Russell (92-xii.), 4, 7, 
, 48, 61, 62, 130. 
Gertrude W^hitcomb, 53. 
Grace Albro, 57. 
Grace Isabelle (Doten), 64. 
Guy Russell, 55. 
Gwendolen Robbins, 74. 
Harriet Elizabeth (Steams), 
Harriet (Mann), 36. 
Hazel Ethel, 74. 
Harold Maynard, 78. 
Henry Eugene, 72. 
Henry Everett, 73. 
Henrv Gordon, 71. 
Henry Joseph (52-i.), 36, 



42 



72. 



41, 



Herbert George (89-ix.), 3, 0-8, 

, 59, 62, 130. 

Herman Boynton, 73. 

Hester Frances, 78. 

Irene, 77. 

Irene Mav, 57. 

Ira Adelbert (84-iv.), 3, 7, 47, 
48, 54, 61, 130, 154. 

James Webster, 69. 

Jane Cecelia (Boyer), 42. 

Jennie Almira, 74. 

Jennv Maria, 42. 

John (58-i.), 3, 4, 7, 8, 38, 44- 
47, 67, 70, 129, 130. 136, 149, 
155, 161, 164. 
— . John, Family Circle, 3, 4, 9, 44. 

John Adams (96-xvi.), 4, 7, 47, 



67. 



Joseph (13-iv.), 8, 22-24, 79. 
Joseph (15-ii.), 8, 23, 34, 35, 



44, 78, 84, 87, 105. 



Index. 



181 



Lowe, Joseph (50-ii.), HG, a9-+l. 

, Joseph Albert, 55. 

, Joseph I)., ll. 

, Kenneth Marshall, Gl. 

. Lewis Mead (8S-viii.), 4-, 7, 47, 

57, 58, 130. 

, Lillian Mabel Whipple, 58. 

, Lorena May, 53. 

, Louisa Adeline (119-i.) (Mes- 
senger), 8, 37, 38, 44, 107, 108, 
111, 168. 

, Louisa Jane (Sylvester), 42. 

, Lowell Mead, 58. 

, Lucile Edith, 77. 

, Lucy Rosella, G9. 

, Lurilla (Whipple), 3-5, 7, 57, 

58. 

, Lula Estella (Jewett), 73. 

, Malcolm Branson, 59 

, Marjorie Jane, 42. 

, Marian Abbie (97-xvii.), 4, 7, 

47, 67. 

, Martha (Stone) (Towle), 61, 

154. 



— , Mary, 77. 

— , Mary A. (Davis), 77. 

— , Mary Adams (Russell), 4, 7, 8, 

34, 38, 45-47, 110, 155, 161, 164, 

165. 

— , Mary Adelaide (Goodwin), 72. 
— , Mary Adelaide (Vaughn), 3, 7, 

59. 



35 



— , Marv Boutelle, 78. 

— , Mary Elizabeth, 69. 

— , Mary EHzabeth (Childs), G9. 

— , Mary Elizabeth (Marshall), 4, 

7, 61. 

— , Mary Estella, 73. 

— , Mary Levina, 69. 

— , Marv Louise (Whitcomb), 4, 7, 

51, 53. " 

Marv or Pollv (Sawver), 8, 34, 

78, 84, 87, 105 
— , Mary E. (Bliss), 41. 
— , Mattie Louise, 53. 
— , Mildred A., 78. 
— , Milley (Willis), 78. 
— , Mvrta (Maynard), 78. 
— , Nathan Hale, 22. 
— , Orin Messenger (87-vii.), 
10, 47, 56. 57, 60, 130. 
— , Percival Eugene, 78. 
— , Porter Webber, 57. 
— , Rachel Parkhill, 56. 
— , Ralph Putnam, 55. 
— , Richard V., 78. 
— , Rodney Messenger, 57. 
-, Rosa Nell (Wright), 76. 
— , Russell Bryant, 56. 



4-, 



Lowe, Samuel Hawes, 3(5. 

, Samuel Hawes (95-.\v.). 4, 7 

34, 47, 6G, 67. 

, Sarah Ann (Hoynton), 39. 

, Sarah Ivlizaixth ((k-rry). 39, 41. 

, Sarah Frances (Brown), 39. 

, Sarah Jane ( Bachcllcr), 70. 

, Sarah (Mead) (150-iii.), ,S, 44- 

47, 119, 122, 129, 130, 134, 149, 

152. 
-, Seth Lyman (61-vii.), 37, 38, 



44, 46, 70. 
-, Seth Phillips, 38. 



, Stephen (4.5-iv.), 35, 36. 107. 

, Stephen Clark (62-xi.), 38, 44, 

70, 71. 

, vSusan (Burr), 23. 

, Susan (Kinsman), 36. 

, Susan Maria, 37. 

, Susan Rei)ecca (Vose), 70. 

, Thomas Hale, 23. 

-, Waldo Hawes (83-iii.), 3-5, 7, 



8, 10, 47, 48, 50, 51, 53, 130. 
— , Willard A. (71-iii.), 41, 74. 
-, Willard Hartwcll (51-iv.). 36, 



41. 



-, William Tennev (66-iv.), 39, 73. 
-, William Vose (100-ii.), 70, 77, 



78. 

, Willie Ellsworth, 72. 

, WilHs Mead, 53. 

Lufkin, Jeremiah, 18. 

, Mary (Low), 18. 

Lumpkin, Richard, 150. 

Mallory, Lucv (Stone), 152. 

, Mr., 152." 

Mann, Lawj^er, 57. 
Marshall, George W'., 61. 

, Miss Sarah, 62. 

, Sarah Elizabeth (Brick), 61. 

Mason, Chauncey, 75. 

, Emma Caroline (Merriam), 38. 

, Florence Louise, 75. 

, Helen Frances, 75. 

, Louise Caroline (Lowe) (75-ii.), 

42, 75. 

, Mrs. Caroline A., 40. 

, Simon A., 38. 

May, Henry A., 9. 

Mayo, Samuel, 111. 

Mckenzie, Mr., 11. 

McKinnie, Abbie Ann (Merriam), 38. 

, George, 38. 

Mead, Abbv A., 127. 

, Abbie'C, 122. 

, Abraham, 121. 

, Abraham (130-v.), 119, 120, 

121, 166. 



182 



Index. 



Mead, Abelbert (148-i.), 122, 127, 

128, 149, 171. 
, Adelbert Francis (173-iii.), 137, 

143. 

, Albert (146-vi.). 122, 127. 

, Albert Arthur, 127. 

, Albert Warren, 127. 

, Albertie M. (Preston), 141. 

, Alfred (147-vii.), 122, 127. 

, Almira jane (Hoar), 127, 128, 

171. 

, Alwilda Barbara (Crocker), 127. 

, Ann (Whitney) (179-ix.), 119, 

144, 146. 

, Anna, 120. 

, Arthur Edwin, 124. 

, Arthur Roscoe, 127. 

, Benjamin Stevens (144-iii. ), 121, 



126 



Betsey Tavlor, 120, 148. 
Betsey (Stevens), 121. 
Caroline (Wetherbee), 124. 
Catherine Louisa, 140. 
Charles, 121. 
Charles Harvev, 127. 
Charles Henry (162-i.), 



124, 



139. 



— , Clarence Varnum, 128. 
— , Clarence Warren, 140. 
— , Cora Elzina, 124. 
— , Cornelius, 116. 
— , David, 114. 

— , Direxa E. (Stearns), 136, 137. 
— , Dorothy Bruce, 139. 
— , Eben Haj^v^'ard, 140. 
— , Ebenezer, 115. 
— . Edgar Clarence (164-i.), 126, 
139, 140. 

— , Edward Adams, 143. 
— , Effie Rosella (Wright), 142. 
— , Eliza (Clement), 124. 
— , Eliza lane (Chandler). 124. 
— , Emory (138-viii.), 120, 124. 
— , Ethel Williams, 140. 
— , Eva Idelle, 138. 
— , Frances E. Gleason, 125. 
— , Frances Varnum, 142. 
— , Frank W., 121. 
— , Franklin (143-ii.), 121, 126. 
— , Franklin (141-iv.), 121, 125. 
— , Frederic Stearns (172-ii.), 137, 



143. 



Frederic Stearns, 143. 
Gabriel (123-i.), 113, 114. 
George, 121. 
George Varnum (171-i.), 



142. 

, Hannah, 

121, 146. 



115, 116, 118, 



137, 
119, 



Mead, Hannah (Hadley), 116. 

, Hannah Maria (Miles), 127. 

, Hannah (Willard), 116, 117. 

, Hasaniah (Gates), 115, 116. 

, Herbert Oscar, 126. 

, Henrv Adelbert, 128, 171. 

, Hobart Emery (169-v.), 129, 

141. 

, Israel, 116. 

, Israel (124-i.), 113-115. 

, Ivo, 125. 

, James, 116, 121. 

, Jennie Foster (Bruce), 139. 

, Johanna, 113. 

, John, 115, 117. 

, Jonathan, 116. 

, "fulia A. (Littlefield), 138. 

, "fulian A., 129. 

, "Lizzie M. (Blandon), 128. 

, Lizzie Maria (Gates), 143. 

, Louis Guy, 129. 

, Lucian Wright, 143. 

, Lucie Helena (Havward), 139, 

140. 

, Lucinda (Conant), 121, 122. 

, Lucy, 118. 119. 146. 

, Lucv Augusta, 128. 

, LucV (Kimball), 120, 121. 

, Lucv Kiml)all, 121. 

. Lucy Maria (Emery), 128, 129. 

, Lucy (Taylor) (183-i.), 122, 

137, 146, 147, 149, 153. 

, Lydia, 118. 

, Lyman (137-vii.), 120, 124. 

, Lyman Willis (159-i.), 124, 138. 

, Mahitable Kay (Moar), 125. 

, Marion Elizabeth, 143. 

, Martha (Keves), 136. 

, Mary, 115, 116. 

, Mary D. (Emerson), 129. 

, Mary E. (Hartwell), 128. 

, Mary (Hall), 114, 115. 

, Mary Stevens, 122. 

, Mary (Stevens), 121. 

, Melissa (Willis), 124. 

, Mira Lizzie, 1 26. 

, Mrs. (Battles), 121. 

, Mrs. Edith (Masten), 125. 

, Mrs. (Randall), 121. 

, Nancy Staples (Morse), 126. 

, Nath'aniel, 120. 

, Nathaniel (133-x.), 119, 122, 

137, 146, 147, 149, 153. 

, Nelson A., 129. 

. Oliver, 120. 

, Oliver (127-ii.), 117, 119, 144, 



146. 



Oliver (129-iv.), 119, 120, 146, 



148. 



Index. 



183 



Mead, Oliver (136-vi.), 120, 124. 

, Oliver Warren (14-9-ii.), 122, 

128, 149. 

, Pauline Anderson, 141. 

, Rebecca Louisa (Burgess), 126. 

, Rev. Samuel, 118. 

, Ruth, 115. 

, Sarah ( ), 116. 

, Sarah; 115, 116, 146. 

, Sally (Sherwin), 120, 121. 

, Samuel, 121. 

, Samuel (126-vi.), 116, 117. 

. Samuel (132-viii.). 119, 121, 



146. 

, Sherman, 121. " 

, Stephen, 115. 

, Susan A. (Morrill), 128. 

, Susan Kliizabeth, 128. 

, Susanna, 113. 

, Sumner Adelbert, 143. 

, Theodosia Bertha (Wright), 143. 

, Thomas, 116. 

, Thomas (125-i.), 115, 116 

, Varnum Balfour, 123, 136, 137, 

141. 

, Varnum Balfour (153-vii), 123, 

136. 137, 141, 149. 

, Varnum Cleveland, 143. 

, Walter (139-ix.), 120, 124. 

, Warren Hartwell, 128. 

, William O., 118. 

Merriam, Abigail Lowe (Wheeler) 
(103-iii.), 79, 80. 

Adelaide Augusta, 71. 

Alice Edna, 49, 80. 

Annie Frances, 71. 

Caroline (Low) (47-i.), 36, 38. 

Charles Forier, 39. 

Charles Sumner, 71. 

Charles Henrv, 39. 

CHfton Harris, 50, 80. 

Edith Augusta, 50, 80. 

Ellen Maria (Lowe) (81-i.), 3- 
7, 10, 47-49, 80, 109, 130. 

Emma Gertrude, 71. 

Emma Maria (Wheeler), 71. 

Frederic Lowe, 49, 80. 

Frederic Mason, 71. 

George Francis, 71. 

George Francis (68-i.). 38, 71. 

George Henry, 38. 

Henry Mead, 50, 80. 

Jacob Harris, 79, 80. 

John Lowe, 49, 80. 

Lizzie Maria, 50. 80. 

Louis Francis, 71. 

Louisa Adeline, 49, 80. 

Lyman Wheeler (105-iv.), 4, 7, 
48, 49, 80. 



5, 



Merriam, Mary I'liza1)eth, SO. 

, Sarah .\l)bie, 80. 

, William Cullen Bryant, 71. 

Merrill, Ella (Howe), 127. 

, William M.. 127. 

Messenger, Calvin (118-i.), 25, 107, 

108, 111, 112. 

, George Edward, 109. 

Messinger, Betsev (i'hillii)s) (122-i.), 

25, 107, 108, 111, 112, 160. 

, Calvin, 108. 

, Ehas. 107. 

, Horace P. (120-ii.), 108, 109. 

, John, 107. 

, Lauretta Lucetta (Wellington), 

109. 

, Olive (Ware), 107. 

, Rachel (Putnam), 107. 

, Sarah Winch (Hartwell), 107- 

109. 

, Thomas (117-i ), 107. 

Timothy, 107. 



Milbourn, Capt. Peter, 15. 

Miller, Mr., 125. 

Minot, Dea. Samuel, 106. 

, Dorcas (Prescott), 106. 

, [ames, 106. 

, "Rebecca (Wheeler), 106. 

, Sarah (Pre.scott), 106. 

Mitchell, Miss, 64. 
Moore, Anna (Mead), 120. 

, William, 120. 

Morrill, Albert Mead, 140. 

, Arthur Clifton, 140. 

, Harvev C. 140. 

, Svlvia A. (165-iii.), 127, 140. 

Morse,- Church, 138. 

, Edith Minnie (Mead), 138. 

Moulton, Mr. J. C, 53. 
Munger. Rev. S. S., 55. 

Nason, Gladys Frances, 75. 

, Helen Frances (Lowe) (74-i.), 

42, 75. 

, Henry F., 75. 

Nourse, Henry, 117. 

Nutter, Ann Maria (Putnam), 28. 

, Horatio G., 28. 

, John H , 153. 

, Mary Elizabeth (Stone), 153. 

Oliver, Hon. Thomas, 105. 

Paine, Timothy, 21. 

Palmer, Charlotte (Fiske), 54. 

, Dr. Thomas, 8, 54. 

Park. Hon. Stuart J., 102. 
Parker, Abigail (Lakin). 104. 
, Abigail (Prescott). 104. 



184 



Index. 



Parker, Deborah (Prescott), 105. 

. James, 104. 

, Samuel, 104. 

, Samuel, 105. 

Parkhill, John, 55. 63. 

, Margaret (Cleghorii), 55. 

Patch, Aflelbert Henry, 135. 

, Andrew, 135. 

, Andrew Warren, (170-i.), 135, 

141, 142, 153. 

, John Herbert, 135. 

, Lucie Maria, 135. ^ 

, Maria (Mead) (151-iv.)r 4S, 

122, 138, 149. 

, Maria (Mead), 172. 

, Ruth Stan wood, 142. 

-, Sarah Elizabeth (Stone), 141, 



Prescott, Hon. Benjamin, 105. 
Caleb, 101. 
Cecilia, 93. 
Charles B.. 80. 
Deborah, 101. 
Ebenezer, 105. 
Elizabeth, 92. 101. 
Elizabeth (Nightingale), 91. 
Elizabeth (Spalding), 105. 
Elizabeth (Whitcomb), 102. 
Ellen ( ), 93. 



ni 



142. 153. 
Patershall, H. de, 91. 
Patten, Mr., 114. 

, Nathaniel, 156. 

, Sarah (Cooper), 156. 

Payson, Rev. John, 34, 35, 87. 
Perkins, Abigail (Dodger), 19. 

, Abraham, 19. 

Perry, William, Esq.. 164. 

Peters, Ann Maria (Stevens) (156- 

ii.), 123. 138. 

. Effie Alaria. 138. 

, George Lewis, 138. 

Phelps. Elizabeth (Hartwell), 36. 

, Rev. Lawrence, 61. 

, Samuel, 36. 

Phillips, Betsev (Hamlin) (123-ii.) 

110-112. 

, Blaney, 110. 

, Christian (Wadsworth), 110. 

, Rev. George, 110. 

, Col. Ivers, 112. 

, John. 112. 

, Sallv (Dwelly), 112. 

, Sally (Thurston), 112. 

, Samuel, 160. 

, Seth, 112. 

, Seth (121-vi.), 110-112. 

, Thomas, 112. 

Phinnev, Capt. Charles H., 56. 
Phipps^ Sir Wilham, 18. 
Pickering, Thomas, 20. 
Pitts, Harvard Brooks, 27. 

, Mar3' Emma (Upton), 27. 

Plummer, Mary (Low), 19. 

, Dr. Samuel, 19. 

Prescott. 88-90. 100. 

, Abigail (Oliver), 105. 

, Alice, 93. 

, Alice (Molineaux), 92. 

, Ann, 92. 

, Anne, 92. 



93 



Ellen Augusta (Merriam) (104- 
), 80. 

Ellen (Shaw), 92. 

Ephraim, 101. 

George Tilton, 80. 

Grace, 102. 

Hannah ( ), 101. 

Hannah (Farnsworth), 105. 

Helen, 92, 93. 

Hesadiah, 102. 

labez, 102. 

lames, 80, 91, 101, 104. 

Sir lames (106-i.), 91, 92, 100. 

Sir [ohn, 91, 92. 

Capt John (109-v.). 80, 85, 90, 
-100. 

John, 91, 92, 101. 

[onas, 102, 105. 

Jonas (112-ix.), 101-104. 



104, 
102. 



Jonas (114-iii.) 

Jonathan, 101 

Joseph, 101. 

Joshua, 101, 102. 

Margaret, 91. 

Martha, 101. 

Marv, 101, 102. 

Marv (Loker), 102-104. 

Mary (Page), 105. 

Mary (Platts), 93, 100. 

Nathaniel, 104. 

Nathaniel (113-x.), 101. 

Ralph, 91. 

Ralph (108-iv.), 92, 93. 

Richard, 93. 

Robert, 91. 

Roger (107-ii.), 91-93. 

Sarah ( ), 101. 



Thankful (Wheeler), 105. 

Thomas, 101. 

Walter, 91. 

William, 91, 92. 
Priest, Emma Melissa (Mead) (160- 
ii.), 124, 138, 139. 

, Frank, 138, 139. 

, Maud Beatrice, 139. 

Pring, William, 145. 
Proctor, William, 47. 
Putnam, Bertha Ernestine, 43. 



Index. 



186 



Putnam, Clayton Lowe, 43. 

, Daniel, Esq., 79. 

, Daniel Cowdin (35-iii.), 28.31. 

, Edna Mary (Lowe) (82-ii.), 3, 

4, 6-8, 32, 47, 50. 52, 109, 130. 

, Ethel Upton, 32. 

, Frank Porter, 28. 

, Frank Webster, 32. 

, Frederic Adams, 28. 

, Gertrude Curtis, 31. 

, Helen Clifford, 31. 

, Helen Edna, 32, 50. 

, Henry Marshall, 42, 43. 

, Isaiah, 47. 

, James Edward (36-iv.), 4, 7, 

28, 32, 107 

, James P., 27, 28, 50. 

, Kate E. (Urner), 31. 

, Lucy, 27. 

, Lucv Ann (Lowe) (55-viii.), 37, 

42, 43." 

, Mabel Urner, 32. 

, Nellie (Brown), 32. 

, Ruth, 32. 

, Susan Abigail (Upton) (24-vi.), 

25, 28, 50. 

, Thomas Farrington, 28. 

, Walter Herbert. 28. 

, William Sweetser, 28. 



Rand, Jonathan, 116. 

Raught or Knight, Mary (Low), 19. 

Riggs, Christine Louisa, 60. 

, Rev. Ezra Jackson, 4, 59, 60. 

-, Ida Louisa (Lowe) (90-x.), 4, 



Russell, John Wesley, 161. 
Joseph, fr., 15(5. 
"Joseph, 156, 160. 
Mabel Viola (Mead), 138. 
Martha, 156. 
Margaret, 160. 
Margaret (Adams), 160., 
Marv Adams, 160. 
Mary (Belcher), 156. 
Mary (Patten), 156. 
Mary (Wyman), 156. 
Nathaniel", 160. 

Sallv (Phillips), 112, 160, 161. 
Sarah A., 160. 
Sir John, 155, 156. 
Susan, 160. 

Thomas, 157, 159, 160. 
Walter, 156, 157, 159, 160. 
Walter, Jr., 160. 



William, 155, 156. 



7, 47, 59, 60, 130. 
-, Nelson Francis, 60. 



Ritter, Abigail (Low), 20. 

, David, 20. 

Roberts, Charles G., 142. 
Robbins, Hannah, 156. 

, Nathaniel, 156. 

Robinson, ex-Gov. Charles, 40. 

, Airs. Sara T. D , 40. 

Rugg, Hannah (Prescott), 101. 

, John, 100, 101. 

, Martha (Prescott), 100, 101. 

Russell, Charles, 160, 161, 164. 
, Hannah (Adams), 157, 159, 

160. 

, Hannah, 160. 

, Harry H., 138. 

, Harriet Stone (Farrar), 160- 

162, 164. 

, Hastings, 156. 

, James, 160. 

, Jennie (McDonough), 161. 

, John, 160. 

13 



Rust, Robert, 20. 



Safford, Joseph, 16. 

, Sarah (Low), 16. 

Sanders, Rev. C. M., 57. 
Sawyer, Abner, 84, 87. 
"Amos, 84, 87. 

Beulah, 84, 87. 

Bezeleel, 84. 

Caleb, 84. 

Caroline Lowe (Russell), 161. 

Charles K., 161. 

Elias, 86, 98. 

Elizabeth (Perkins), 87. 

Ephraim, 98. 

Eunice, 84, 87. 

Ezra, 84, 87. 

Hannah, 84. 

James, 84. 

John, 84, 85, 87. 

Jonathan E., 118. 

Joseph, 84, 85, 87. 

Joshua, 84. 

"Luke, 35, 84, 87. 

iMary (Houghton ?), 105. 

Mary (Prescott) (110-i.), 78. 

100, 101. 

Mary (Prescott), 87. 

Marv (Sawver), 85, 87. 

Mav", 87. 

Mercy (Mead), 118. 

Molly (Stewart), 87. 

Moses, 85. 

Nathaniel (113-x.), 84, 85, 87, 



96 



105 



Phineas (116-vii.), 87. 
Phineas, 84, 85, 87. 
Pollv (Smith), 87. 



186 



Index. 



Sawyer, Samuel, 87. 

, Thomas, 78, 84-87, 96, 98, 99, 

101. 
Scott, Rev. G. R. W., 32, 50, 56, 63. 
Scribner, Rev. Matthew. 111. 
Seccumb, Rev. John, 14-7. 
Sill, Capt. Joseph, 150. 
Simonds, Abel, 4-6. 

, Clark, 46. 

, Mr., 94. 

Skidmore, Thomas, 94. 

Smith, Ardelia (Fairbanks), 112. 

, Polly, 35. 

Snvder, Adam, 52. 

Spalding, Thankful (PVescott), 105. 

, Timothy, 105. 

Spaulding, Alfred, 39. 
Standish, Alex., 91. 
Standish, Ralph, 91. 

, Roger, Esq., 91. 

Stearns, Henry Martin, 39. 

, Justin, 65. 

, iMary Caroline (Lowe), 39. 

, Mary (Low), 19. 

Steele, Abbie Louise (Lowe) (57-x.), 

37 43. 

,' George W., 43. 

, Olive Elvira, 43. 

, William, 43. 

, Winnifred, 43. 

Stevens, Ada (Johnson), 13S. 

, Alice S. (Guilford), 143. 

, Anna (Mead) (128-iii.), 119, 

120, 146. 

, Annie M. (Lincoln), 123. 

, Ella M. (Perrv), 143. 

. Eugene CliflTord (174-i.), 137. 

, Frances Adelaide (Mead) (154- 



viii.), 123, 137, 149. 
— , Francis Henry (155-i.), 123, 



137. 
— , Frederic Roscoe (175-i.), 138, 

143 

— , Gertrude A., 138. 
— , George Lyman, 123. 
— , Harold Francis, 143. 
— , Lvman Guilford, 143. 
— , Maria (Stearns), 123. 
— , Moses (135-ii.), 120, 123. 
— , Myra (Whitcomb), 123. 
— , Myra R. (Whitcomb), 138. 
— , Oliver W., 120. 
— , Ralph Edwin, 143. 
— , Sophia, 120. 
— , Susan, 120. 
— , William, 120. 

-, William Edwin (158-iv.), 123, 



138. 
Stewart, Rev. S. J., 54. 



Stickney, Charles E., 89. 

, Mary Caroline (Lowe) (Stearns), 

39. 
Stone, Amos, 151. 

Ann, 150. 

Ann (Gray), 153. 

Ann M. (Lindsey), 152. 

Benjamin, 151. 

Emma (Parker), 151. 

Eunice (Fairbanks), 151, 152. 

Dea. Simon, 106. 

Frances, 150. 

Hannah, 151. 

Hannah (Jones), 152. 

Isaac, 151. 

Jasper, 54, 152, 153. 

Jasper Grav, 153. 

"jasper (190-vi.), 152, 153. 

Joan (Clark), 150. 

John, 150. 

[onas, 151. 

Jonathan, 141, 153. 

Joseph, 151-153. 

Joseph (186-viii.), 106, 151. 

Josiah, 152. 

Lois, 152. 

Lydia, 151. 

Marie, 150. 

Marv, 151. 

Mary (Babcock), 152. 
L., 56. 

L. (Andrews), 153. 
Patten (Swett), 54, 153. 
(Prescott) (115-iv.), 105, 



Mary 
Mary 
Mary 
Mary 
106, 151. 

Mary (Robbins), 156. 
Mary (Whipple), 150. 
Molly (Moore), 151. 
Phineas (188-v.), 152. 
Phineas Jones, 152. 

Rebecca ( ), 151. 

S. Rebecca (Andrews), 
Sally, 152. 
Samuel, 151. 



153. 



Sarah, 151. 

Sarah .\nn (Hall), 152. 

Sarah (Farnsworth), 150, 151. 

Sarah L. (Adams), 153. 

Sarah (Lumpkin), 150. 

Sarah L. (Mills), 152. 

Silas, 152. 

Silas (187-vii.), 151, 152. 

Simon, 150, 151. 

Simon (184-iii.), 150. 

Simon (185-i.), 150, 151. 

Sybil, 151. 

Thankful, 151. 
Story, Zachery, 20. 
Sweetser, Mahitable (Upton), 25. 



Index. 



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Sweetser, Thomas, 25. 
Swett, Rev. Charles Darius, 54. 
Swift & Co., G. F., 52, 56, 57, 60. 
Symonds, Gov. Samuel, 13, 17. 
, Harlakendon, 13, 17. 



Taylor, Ann Whitman, 147. 

, Betsev, 149, 153. 

, Betsev Fairbanks (Stone) (189- 

vi.), 148-150, 152, 153. 

, Betty (Wetherbee), 147, 148. 

, Elwood E., 30. 

, Ephraim, 147. 

, Eunice, 149, 153. 

, Franklin. 149, 153. 

, Hezekiah, 148. 

, Jabe, 147. 

, Jonathan, 148. 

, John, 147. 

, Lovell, 148. 

, Lvdia, 147. 

, Mary, 148, 149, 153, 170. 

, Mary Dickerson (Bowers), 149. 

, Mary Emily (Davis), 30. 

, Marv (MacLaughlin), 147. 

, Oliver (181-v.), 147, 148. 

, Oliver (182-i.), 148-150, 153. 

, Phineas, 147. 

, Sally (Wetherbee), 148. 

, Solomon (180-iii.), 147. 

, Solomon, 147. 

, Tabbathy, 147. 

, Varnum, 149, 153. 

Thorndike, Elizabeth, 16. 

, John, 13, 16. 

Thurston, Caroline (Boutelle), 42. 

, Cyrus, 41. 

Tilson, Alderman, 15. 
Tooly, Thomas, 15. 
Torrey, Ebenezer, 168. 
Towle, Charles Fred, 154. 

, James Roby, 154. 

, Virginia, 154. 

Townend, Harrv Garthwaite, 30, 31. 

, Robert Vo'se, 31. 

, Maurice Garthwaite, 31. 

, Susan Amelia (Upton) (32-xi.), 

26, 30, 31. 
Trenchard, Sir Thomas, 155. 
Twitchell, Anna Betsey (Mead) (152- 

vi.), 123, 135, 136, 149. 

, Anna (Mead), 49. 

, Charles Stanley, 135, 136. 

, Clarence Varnum, 49, 136. 

, Martha M. (Bean) (Haddock), 

136. 
Tyler, Rev. H. M., 59. 
, J. G., 67. 



Upton, Abbie S. (Brown), 32. 
Abigail, 25. 
Abigail (Dowiic), 27. 
Abigail (Low) (1 1-i.), 23. 
Angeline, 25. 

Betsey (Messingcr) (109-iv.), 
25, 26, 108. 
Calvin, 26. 

Carrie A. (Holden). 32. 
Charles (25-vii.), 25, 28. 
Charles Emerson, 27. 
Charles Herbert, 28. 
Daniel C, 26. 
Dorothy Christine, 31. 
Edwin (22-iv.), 25, 27. 
Edwin, 32. 
Ethelyn, 30 
Eunice (Vinton), 25. 
Frances Elizabeth, 31. 
Frederic Willis, 28. 
George Clinton (37-i.), 28, 32. 
George Vose, Jr., 31. 
George Vose (33-xii.). 26, 31. 
Hannah (Stanley), 24. 
Harriet Downe, 27. 
Harrison (30-vi.,), 26, 30. 
Helen Abbott (Mason), 31. 
Helen Beatrice, 31. 
John, 23, 24. 
John (23-v.), 25, 27, 28. 
John v., 25. 
Joseph, 31. 
loseph (17-i.), 24, 25. 
"Joseph (19-i.), 25, 26, 108. 
Lillian, 28. 

Louisa Adeline (Burgess), 30. 
Louisa C. (Willis), 27, 28. 
Louisa Maria (Farwell), 27. 
Lydia H., 26. 
Maraton, 29. 
Marcella, 30. 

Sarah AmeHa (Hagar), 28. 
Sarah M. (Greenwood), 30. 
Susan Elizabeth (Uptcm) (27- 
, 26, 29. 
Susan (Thurston), 25, 28. 
Thomas (21-iii.), 25, 27. 
Tiraothv Felton (18-iv.), 25. 
William", 24, 25. 
William Maraton, 29. 



i.) 



Varnum, John, 104. 

, Dorothy (Prescott), 104. 

Vaughn, Susan (Brendorft), 59. 

, William E., 59. 

Vose, William H., 70. 

Wadsworth, Capt., 98. 
Walcott, Frederic, 147. 



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Index. 



Walcott, Molly (Taylor), 147. 

Wallace, Amy Louise, 31. 

, Amy Louisa (Upton) (34-ii.), 

28, 31. 

, Charles E., 73. 

j Frederic, 31. 

, Harold L., 73. 

, Herbert Ingalls, 31. 

, Martha Roberta (Lowe) (67- 

iii.), 39, 73. 

, Rodney, 31. 

, Ruth L., 73. 

-, Sophia Ingalls, 31. 



Walter, Nehemiah, 82. 
Waters, Lawrence, 96. 
Webber, George H., 56. 

, Sarah Jane (Smith), 56. 

Webster, Nathaniel, 17. 
Wells, Edmund, 82. 
Wentworth, Clarence, 39. 

, Fannie Elizabeth, 39. 

Westland, Richard, 15. 
Wetherbee, Betty (Whitney), 147. 

, Daniel, 116. 

, Phineas, 147. 

Wheeler, Amos, 23, 79. 

, Bettv (Tavlor), 147. 

, Levi, 147.' 

, Marv, 79. 

, MarV (Low) (16-iii.), 23,37, 79. 

, Sarah (Prescott), 101. 

, Richard, 98, 101. 

Whitcomb, Albert S., 53. 

, Betsey (Mead), 120. 

, Col., "116, 117. 

, Col. Asa, 117. 

, Col. John, 119. 

, Martha Abigail (Willis), 53. 

, Peter, 120. 

Whipple, Daniel F., 57. 

, Irene A. (Boynton), 57. 

Whitney, Abraham, 99, 144, 146, 151. 

, Abraham (178-yiii), 146. 

, Albert E., 76. 

, Capt. Salmon, 117. 

, Elijah, 146. 

. Elinor ( ), 145. 

, Elizabeth, 146. 

, Elizabeth (Lee), 146. 

, Eustace, 144. 

, Isaiah, 146. 

, Isaiah (176-x.), 145, 146. 

, John, 144-146. 

, Jonathan, 145. 

, Judith (Clement), 145. 

, Mary, 146. 

Mary Ellen (Lowe) (77-i.), 42, 



76. 



-, Mary (Kedall or Kettle), 145. 



Whitney, Mary (Stone), 151, 

, Mrs. Sarah (Woodard) (Eddy), 

145. 

, Nathaniel, 145. 

, Richard, 145. 

, Roy Lowe, 76. 

, Sarah. 146. 

-' — , Sarah (Whitney), 144, 146. 

, Sir Randolph de, 144. 

, Sir Robert, 144. 

, Thomas (175-iv.), 145. 

Wiggin, Joseph, 25. 

, Lucy (Upton), 25. 

Wilder, Col. Oliyer, 117. 

, Jerome W., 38. 

, Mary, 84. 

, Mary Eliza (Merriam), 38. 

Wiley, Miss Eleanor L., 10. 
Willard, 37. 

, Dorcas (Cutler), 117. 

, Hannah (Houghton), 117. 

, Henry, 117. 

, James, 117. 

, Eliza (Dunster), 117. 

, Maj. Simon, 117. 

, Mary, 117. 

, Mary (Lakin), 117. 

—-.Mary (Sharp), 117. 
Willis, Aaron Sawyer, 78. 

, Elijah, 147. 

, Hannah (Tavlor), 147. 

Winch, Abbie A. (Stevens), 123. 

, George G., 123. 

Winthrop. Gov. John, 15, 110. 

Wise, Joseph, 82. 

Wood, Abbie Lawrence, 35. 

, Annie Laurie, 35. 

, Katherine Kimball, 35. 

, Lucinda Maria (Dimond), 35. 

, Mrs.Lydia (Messinger) (Hawes), 

34, 35, 44, 108. 
-, Rev. John, 35, 52, 59, 65, 108. 



Woodard, George, 145. 
Woods, Mary Hale (Lowe), 23. 
Wright, Emma Augusta (Mead) 

(168-iii.), 129, 141. 

, Eunice Cummings, 65. 

, George Sumner, 141. 

, Harriet Lydia (Lowe) (94- 

xiv.), 4, 7, 8, 47, 65. 

, Mary, 141. 

, Margaret, 141. 

, Warren Mead, 141. 

, William Hamilton, 65. 

Wilma Harriet, 65. 



Wyman, David, 157. 

, Mr. William, 43. 

Wymarde, Alexander, 92. 
, Anne (Prescott), 92. 



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ILLUSTRATIONS. 

John Lowe and Family, 1892, frontispiece 

Coat of Arms, title pafj;e 

Signatures of John Lowe F'amily Circle, 7 

John Lowe, OPP- 4-4 

Sarah M. Lowe, opp. 112 

Facsimile of Letter of Sarah M. Lowe, 181-134 

Mary A. R. Lowe, opp. 154 

Signatures of David and Louisa Lowe, 1G8 



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